Scale Modeling 101: How to remove punch marks with a curved blade.

This is a demonstration of how to remove punch marks (sink marks) utilizing a curve carving blade. This was demonstrated by Curt Stidham (also known as Netz in the ARC forums), A very respected modeler with more than 30 yrs of experience!!

[schweinhund]

Interesting way to remove ejector pin marks! A nice " addition " to our Arsenal of tricks! Thanks for posting....

[antikoerper]

great tips for beginners such as me, thanks for bringing it on camera sir

[lon]

Thanks for that brother, you can never get to many tips...best regards Pete...

[BigAndTall]

X-Acto / Proedge makes a sanding stick with interchangeable sanding bands for such purposes, i usually use it after scraping with the rounded blade...

[LTModels]

Yes his name is Curt, he's an awesome modeler!

[ThunderheadSMKR]

Very nice, I will have to set up a couple of my knives for this. Cheers

[MakingModelsAgain]

Nice tip - now I need to go get some curved blades for my X-Acto! :)

[SgtSaboo]

Thanks for sharing! I've added that to my bag of tricks!!

[LTModels]

Hey Norm!! hope you had a great 2013 start, thanks for watching!

[LTModels]

Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to check it out! :)

[BasicModelling]

Great tip... Now I just need to get myself a couple of Exacto curved blades in different sizes.. :) Maybe at the next show I go to.. :)

[BigAndTall]

Found my oooold Proedge catsalogue; item numbers of interest are = "Pro #53600" (three sticks of various grits) - "Pro #53640" - "Pro #53650" - "Pro # 53660" (indiviual sticks packaged with one extra sanding belt in respective grid) - Also the so called "Grit Stix" sticks comes in red-green-blue colours for easy recognition between grit sizes. :-)

[schweinhund]

The World is still here? Life is good I guess ! LOL. I have a few kits to review.... for ya ! I'll get back at it soon ! Thanks for the good wishes ! all the best to ya and your family !

[hekuboshi]

Wish I had seen this 6 hours earlier. I've done this many times with flat blades, but I had parts earlier that flat blade wouldn't get to.

[BasicModelling]

I'm not sure if I'll make it to any of the smaller shows in February / March due to having no leave left.. I don't fancy going to work after a day at a modelling show as you can end up quite tired after such an event. And besides, I'd want to stay home and study my purchases and wonder why the 'eck I bought what I bought... ) :) Still, hopefully I'll make it to the show at the RAF Museum in May, and there's always a lot of traders selling a great variety of stuff, so should find some there! :)

[badgrendels]

Scared me to see that blade moving towards the fingers. Good tip!

[LTModels]

Thank you for the kind comment, and just be careful while doing it, you gotta watch those fingers!! lol.

[LTModels]

There you go! they always have those there!

[chancerNW]

Thats a pretty usefull tip, was that from your most recent club meeting?

[LTModels]

oh and yes, it was at the last meeting.