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Cutting irregular shapes in plasticard sorted

I have been making the bins that fit on each side of the Centurion turret with disasterous results. Then I remembered that I had a little plastic tool in my shed that had not seen the light of day for several years.... a set of plastic shaping combes. This tool is a terific item that I would recomend to any modeler...providing that you can remember that you own it..unlike me

Below is a set of fotos showing the tool in steps.....simples

Also I have covered the back of a 12 inch steel rule with a piece of innertube rubber...this stops the ruler sliding on the plasticard and ruining the nice straight edge that you want....gosh I'm good

The tool was bought in a little tool shop in Romford Essex for about £5, so I expect it could be found in any good tool shop near you....if not I expect that I could get a few....

I hope this is of use to at least one of you ....

There are more fotos of the turret in the build section today

Mike

Simple, but effective

Keith

handy tool , its amazing what things one forgets they have , i usually remember after the jobs done

[ICE]monkey wrote:handy tool , its amazing what things one forgets they have , i usually remember after the jobs done

same here, I forget I have things and buy a duplicate tool to find the one I had in the first place lying on the bench when I put the new one down next to it