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Use a new #10 Xacto blade (thats the rounded one) and cut on a solid surface such as a piece of glass or tile.

Anyway, cut with a rocking motion, such as with a paper trimmer.

Some might recommend fine scissors.  They will work, but make sure that they are sharp and that the blades meet tightly.   With a bypass cutter such as scissors one blade will pull the material being cut around the other blade resulting in a ragged/uneven cut.

Great Ed, thank you.

Don't think will be easy but i'll try.

Just another stupid question.

In your picture I noticed the railing is of 4 cables: is this a standard or every Navy (like Kriegsmarine of course) has his own ?

Thank you again

Ciao

Luca 

Sorry, 5 cables.

Ciao

Luca 

Most navies have their own preferred configuration.   There are also different configurations for deck-edge and superstructure-edge railings.   Most deck-edge railings have more bars (often steel cables) to help prevent the crew from being washed over the side.

The bottom bar in PE railings represents the gutter on the edge. 

This also helps prevent things and people from washing off the deck.   

Some PE manufacturers have tried to do railings without bottom/gutter rails.   I never got the hang of them.

Remember too that PE rails are generally out of scale for the application we make of them.  While they could be made finer, they couldn't be used by modelers without some fancy equipment. 

Thank you Ed.

Examining the Eduard grid is not clear where exactly I have tu cut but I guess some (more or less ) lucky tries will help.

Ciao

Luca 

skifar - you really need to get a pair of dividers to measure how long each length of railing needs to be. If you try to either guess or do it by eye, you will mess it up. Trust me on that one. I'm not sure where you would find them where you live, but in the USA, you can find inexpensive dividers in office supply stores, sometimes in department stores, specialty shops that cater to draftsmen and architects, sometimes in stationary shops, a nautical or marine supply store if you're near one of those, etc.

Using a ruler is not always practical because you can't get it close enough to where the railing actually has to go. If I am going to cut a length that includes a bend in it, I measure to where the bend will be located and mark that with pencil or fine point marker on the PE railing so I make sure I bend at the right spot. The fewer errors you make, the more leftover railing you'll have for either another build or to fix a really, really bad screwup somewhere else. Good luck, and remember, it takes patience!