Aaaah... Help me p-p-p-please!!

Aaaah... I was just trying to cut open the hatch on my revell-itr, to show off the system im putting in it, and I was using a sharp, small exacto knife, and I took my time, and i made a reall mess of the body. I ended up somehow breaking off part of the rear bumber in the process too.

Don't worry though, I have another kit which i am only using for parts for my civic, so i can use its body... Any tips on Cutting the hatch off of it??? Any help would be much appreachiated! :confused:

man i almost had the same prob.

all i can say, is take your time!

but seeing as you have another kit, take a dremil or asaw of somewort and cut the trunk out of the body, then take the hobby knife and sand paper to get rid of excess plastic thats left over from cutting!

using a saw can cut away too much plastic making to big of a gap whe the part is reinstalled. Just be VERY patient and use the BACK of your exacto knife and keep scraping little by little until it comes free, don't worry too much about stray cut marks, you can fill those with putty later. I hope this helps, this is how I do all my curbside models when I install an engine

Ya, maybe i will try with the back of the blade that sounds better than ravagin it with a dremell.

But i also heard a while back that there was some way of opening doors and such, with some sort of wire... anyone know how this works??

Originally posted by Hash_man
Ya, maybe i will try with the back of the blade that sounds better than ravagin it with a dremell.

But i also heard a while back that there was some way of opening doors and such, with some sort of wire... anyone know how this works??
not nescisarily wire, string or floss, just make a few passes with the back of an exacto knife and then poke a hole, feed the string thru the hole and go u and down, or back and for in a sawing motion, it will cut the plastic easy but u will have to change ur string alot:bandit:

Some folks use plain thread. In last months issue of Scale Auto Magazine(I THINK), they had an arcticle that talked about using thread to open the doors on a rally car. I tried it just to see how hard it was on a body that I had already ruined. Used a pin vise and the smallest bit I had and drilled a pilot hole then went to town. It took a while and the old fingers turned purple, but I popped the door out and after just a little sanding you could barely tell that it was cut out at all when it was put back into place. Hope this helps.

A dremel ? Using a dremel would make a huge gap inbetween the two parts, and thats if it doesn't melt or shrink the parts.
I recommend that next time you go to home depot you check out their lexan sheet sections and look for their cutter. its a small plastic tool with a sharp blade on the end and a smaller knife on its back. Its hard to explain but its meant for scoring the plastic a few times so that the break line is nice, small, even, and perfect.

The tool is about $3, and its really helpful. Sorry if my description sucks, but if you do go, you'll know what i'm talkign about.

ack you guys got me all wrong!
i thought he said he had a spare body that he was willing to discard for parts, so i told him to just cut the trunk out of the spare body with a dremil and then use it on the other body

not nescisarily wire, string or floss, just make a few passes with the back of an exacto knife and then poke a hole, feed the string thru the hole and go u and down, or back and for in a sawing motion, it will cut the plastic easy but u will have to change ur string alot

Thanks, thats exactly what i was talkin about but didn't know excactly how to do it. I will attempt this tommorow and after the car show this weekend (and model car show) I will hopefully get my film developed and scan up some pictures!

I now know how to do the whole opening of the trunk, but i want to know what you guys think... should i still open it or not??:confused:

Maybe you can go for a hand massage before attempting to cut anything...:p

Chris wrote a 'How to' on this, did you look in the FAQ?
If it is not in the FAQ just do a search....

here you go

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=61545&highlight=back+of+blade+how+to