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I now have myself a photo etch machine. I want to make oars, harpoons, ratlines, deadeyes blubber hooks and any numer of whale ship gear. Of course items for other ships as well.  I downloaded DraftSight, and they lost me at X  Y.  Is there a simple free program I can use?

 

Much thanks.

 

Chief  

Author of the Submarine Thrillers

OF ICE AND STEEL and EPITAPH

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I've been pleased with Serif DrawPlus Starter. It's a vectored drawing program rather than a drafting program which makes it easy to trace over an imported image then reduce the tracing to the size you need. I think it will suit your needs perfectly, I've been strongly considering a photo-etch kit and intend to use DrawPlus for the masks needed.

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Current Builds:  ESMERALDA Chilean Navy School Ship, 1/640 in a bottle


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Completed Build:  Prairie Schooner OGALLALA 1/96 in a bottle


Research Project:  Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops


 


 


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Can somebody put up a link to what kind of machine you are talking about?

 

I thought this was done just using chemicals/masking on brass sheets?

 

Is it some kind of laser or what?

Previous build(mostly) - 18th Century Longboat


 


Current build - Bounty Launch


 


Next build - San Francisco by AL


Future build - Red Dragon


Future build - Mayflower from Model Expo

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The kit I'm looking at is from Micro-Mark. It uses masks that can be printed on most computer printers and chemicals in the kit remove the un-masked metal.

 

http://www.micromark.com/micro-mark-pro-etch-photo-etch-system,8346.html

 

There's a link to how it works there. I don't know if Chief has this kit but it's the only one I've found.

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Current Builds:  ESMERALDA Chilean Navy School Ship, 1/640 in a bottle


insanity Dan Clapp's hard water race boat in a bottle


Completed Build:  Prairie Schooner OGALLALA 1/96 in a bottle


Research Project:  Cruizer-class Brig-Sloops


 


 


"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

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