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Cut/trim lines on shells

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Not done many cars and cutting the bodies is not a favourite job. The trim lines have varied on several. some have been raised on the outside and some on the inside.

I have cut a couple with the trim line fully gone and the last I left this line on,to me it seemed to make the wheel arch area stiffer,with a slight raised edge.

What do you guys do? always trim the lines of?

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It mostly depends on the body.  Tamiya's detailed touring car shells tend to have the arch lips moulded into the body, so cutting below those lines keeps the nice profile.  Cheaper race bodies just have a circle to mark where the wheel goes, to it doesn't really matter.

I'm pretty poor at cutting shells but I did something like 4 shells in one day last week, as it was raining and I was stuck indoors keeping my toddler company and I'd built my way through most of my NIBs and didn't have space to start any more.  So I've got a bit faster and a bit more accurate recently.

Maybe tomorrow I'll start masking them up for paint...

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