PE parts on models.....

[Nirvana]

I have tried to find a sort of answer regarding PE parts, say you are building a plastic ship and have bought PE parts for it.
Do one paint the items to blend in with the model or leave them as is in order to show the enhancements.
I will continue my search.

If anyone has some good advice that can be helpful for builders.

 

Thank you

[Pirate adam]

It is totally up to you, but I would paint them. There are plenty of people that build plastic models and don’t paint them at all. 
 

The Britmodeller forum has tons of good info on plastic models and painting. Very helpful and likeminded group to this one. 
 

Adam

[CPDDET]

It's your model, do what pleases you! That's my motto.

[palmerit]

Note that if you paint the PE, research the right way to paint it. I painted the PE for my Sherbourne and used Vallejo acrylic primer (which works great on wood and plastic) and discovered that the primer (and paint on top of it) would peel off. I only then watched some YouTube videos and saw that you either need to abrade the PE (which is hard to really do on tiny PE parts) or use a non-acrylic primer like Tamiya Surface Primer.

 

This video does a comparison of PE painting methods:

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by palmerit