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What is the best way to cut sheet styrene? I am just starting to use it, and use a straight edge and my xacto knife. I score the sheet a few times and "snap" it off. Only problem is that my straight edge doesn't seem as straight as I want it after I snap it off.

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What is the best way to cut sheet styrene? I am just starting to use it, and use a straight edge and my xacto knife. I score the sheet a few times and "snap" it off. Only problem is that my straight edge doesn't seem as straight as I want it after I snap it off.

I use a razor saw (mitre saw)

Take a look at the Tips & Tricks board, this subject has come up before.

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Take a look at the Tips & Tricks board, this subject has come up before.

thanks I actually have one and never thought of using it for that

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Well, if you're not doing an interior, you could just scribe where the doors and windows would be.....Use the back of an Exacto knife or a thin, flathead screwdriver.....Just mark out what and where you want to cut with a pencil and get to scribing.....

Or you could just slap a rectangular piece of plastic on the side to represent a door like I did, here....

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76098

Edited by kilrathy10
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okay thanks, what I was thinking with the window was having a clear piece (for the glass of course) and having a curtain behind it but iam not sure what to do about the windowsill it's self

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Dark tinted (limo tint) windows can make the illusion of a window without having to worry about being actually transparent.

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JT is the man on truck models. Great job on the sleeper.

LOL !!! I don't know about all that, but thanks, Man...

Do I see you're out in Willis, Man...I was just out there last week working for a lady.....

Small world, Man....

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LOL !!! I don't know about all that, but thanks, Man...

Do I see you're out in Willis, Man...I was just out there last week working for a lady.....

Small world, Man....

it shows true to me.

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