| PVT641 | 23 May 2017 5:23 a.m. PST |
Gentlemen,
I'm looking for suggestions for easy ways to remove 6mm figures from the strip after painting. I currently use a wire cutter and then have to file down the remaining stub. Sometimes the figures get all bent. There has to be a better way. How do you do it? |
| Bob in Edmonton | 23 May 2017 5:31 a.m. PST |
Side cutters to nip the strip. Are you trying to remove the integral base entirely? Or just lower its profile? |
| VVV reply | 23 May 2017 6:13 a.m. PST |
Side cutters, put onto base and then build up basing material round the strip to hide it. |
| PVT641 | 23 May 2017 6:39 a.m. PST |
Bob, just removing the figure from the strip. cutting it just below the base. have not heard of a "side cutter". Pictures look like the wire cutters that I'm using. Do the cut the metal flush to the base? The wire cutter that I have leaves a small amount of the strip behind after cutting. It does not cut flush. |
GildasFacit  | 23 May 2017 6:58 a.m. PST |
Knowing the type of strip you mean would help. Are they Baccus type or H&R ? Personally I always do my cutting before painting, far too much risk of damage doing it afterwards. |
| Jozis Tin Man | 23 May 2017 7:24 a.m. PST |
I use a sprue cutter, I thinkbfrom games workshop, to cut Baccus strips. It cuts flat, unlike wire cutters. |
| Bob in Edmonton | 23 May 2017 7:34 a.m. PST |
Ah, sorry, I assumed you wanted to just cut the strips into pieces, not remove the figure from the strip.Trying to remove the figures from their bases individually sounds very challenging and isn't something I've attempted to do beyond one or two figures to make vehicle riders. Sorry. |
| PVT641 | 23 May 2017 7:52 a.m. PST |
Gildasfacit: Mostly these are GHQ Moderns. |
| VVV reply | 23 May 2017 10:06 a.m. PST |
Side cutter is a very precise cutter. Googling it will show what it does and it has a flat cut. |
| PVT641 | 23 May 2017 10:15 a.m. PST |
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| GildasFacit | 23 May 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
Not all side cutters produce a flush cut. Whilst it may be the wrong name, many sell 'V' cut electrical cutters under that title. I've had very little to do with GHQ but that did involve some problems with clean removal of parts from sprues – I ended up doing a deal of filing. I was doing it before painting though. |
| Chris Wimbrow | 23 May 2017 5:14 p.m. PST |
Model railroaders use rail nippers. I don't know if they're any more stout than plastic sprue cutters. |
| VVV reply | 24 May 2017 2:19 a.m. PST |
Yes I would not use plastic cutters on metal. Same reason I avoid Games Workshop products, not good enough. I get my side cutters from model railway suppliers (of which there are quite a lot once you go looking). |
| PVT641 | 24 May 2017 5:05 a.m. PST |
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| Elenderil | 25 Sep 2017 3:52 a.m. PST |
In the U.K. the best side cutters I have used have been from Maplins. |
