The basic tips;
Cut the part free on a hard flat surface to prevent accidental bends or kinks.
For simple bends you can place the part under a steel rule at the fold line. Make sure it's the right way up!
Carefully slide a safety blade under the bit that stick out and gently bend the part while pressing the ruler down to hold it in place.
For curved parts I find a gentle rolling with a round object, brush handle, tooth picks etc. On a cutting mat can get the item to curl as needed, sometimes they might need a bit of heat in them to soften the metal.
A lighter flame will do the trick. It only needs to change colour, don't heat it bright red as you risk melting it!!!
Thanks Ian, I've got a couple of hard surfaces that I can use (faced chipboard or birch ply).
Take it to cut, it's a safety knife/stanley knife job.
Will have to raid the garage for a steel rule!
Be glad you’re not building the Lead Sled kit of it, then
The whole hull/body/fuselage was made up of etched panels.
Will see how I go with this amount - seems to be a lot of little bits to be bent, most are into a 'L' shape, but some are to a channel - never know, I might enjoy working with it!
That is a rather unusual vehicle Gerry, I bet it's not much good at reversing either.....
Don't think that it was a very nippy vehicle full stop, as I'm still trying to figure out how it was steered!
Has a 'steering wheel' inside, but the skis look as though they're fixed, so I can only assume that they somehow 'braked' one side set of skis to skid steer it.