Thanks for sharing Macho! In my experience, a hobby knife is my preferred tool for cutting styrene, especially for thinner pieces like that tubing. I found my cut lines in the miter box tend to drift. And The Chopper razor blade is both hard to line up precisely and can cut down at an angle.
Thanks Dave! Just before I hit the road I started to experiment and I really have not settled on a cutting styrene tubing method. The last one I tried and found decent results is actually the most unellegant: cutting with the nippers and then filing down to clean up the part. I just wrapped snapping and shooting photos of Sazabi and will be back at it next week!
I'm excited to share my disastrous results with everyone soon! In short, the PE is fine, it just wasn't a good fit for the GM builds. I'm going to look into .5mm plaplate to bulk up the armor or just push ahead with the builds.
Thanks for sharing Macho! In my experience, a hobby knife is my preferred tool for cutting styrene, especially for thinner pieces like that tubing. I found my cut lines in the miter box tend to drift. And The Chopper razor blade is both hard to line up precisely and can cut down at an angle.
Thanks Dave! Just before I hit the road I started to experiment and I really have not settled on a cutting styrene tubing method. The last one I tried and found decent results is actually the most unellegant: cutting with the nippers and then filing down to clean up the part. I just wrapped snapping and shooting photos of Sazabi and will be back at it next week!
Looking cool - love those decals.
Good luck with that photoetch. ;)
I'm excited to share my disastrous results with everyone soon! In short, the PE is fine, it just wasn't a good fit for the GM builds. I'm going to look into .5mm plaplate to bulk up the armor or just push ahead with the builds.
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. I do like the Gundams. Enjoyed looking through your videos. Great stuff
Awesome, thank you! I really appreciate the note and the subscribe!
Cool stuff. Definitely looking forward for a PE tutorial.
Coming soon! Spoiler alert, it's not going well but I am learning a lot and having fun!