Hey, does anyone know if Clemens tried slicing the nose off of his kit yet? Because . . . . Rigid . . . . that thread method you told us about. That is freakin outstanding, man.
Now, I know you said to use cotton thread, but I only had polyester on hand and gave it a try. If cotton is better, it must just let you sit back and watch while it cuts for you, as I had no trouble what-so-ever cutting the rudder off of my 190 with the poly. Granted, the panel line for the rudder was pretty darn deep so that helped. But, wow!
This first pic shows cutting half the rudder with a knife.
This second one shows cutting the other half with the thread.
and the 3rd shows the results of both methods. If you look closely enough, you might be able to see that the thread side (left) resulted in a much cleaner cut that required only slight clean-up to get it nice and smooth with virtually no loss of material.
Thanks for the tip, Rigid! It was soooo easy and using the thread this way leaves no chance of screwing up and cutting too far. With how easy that is, I'll probably open up the radio access panel and throw some iteresting bits in there. The possibilities are endless. Gunner ports on bombers; roof hatches on APCs; whatever.
Look out plastic! There's gonna be holes in fuselages where you didn't even know you had holes.
Bill.
On the bench: Lindberg 1/32 scale 1934 Ford Coupe and a few rescue projects.
In queue: Tamiya 1/35 Quad Tractor or a scratch build project.
