Removing Flash and mold lines

[Chasseur]

For the most part I will use an exacto knife to carve off the mold lines on plastic figs. I saw an article where a fellow heats up a paper clip and melts them off. I tried that technique but is doesn't work very well. Does anyone in this forum have a better way that they could share?

Chasseur

[Fenton]

I use a sharp knife, I also have used the heat method, but I use the flast of the X-acto blade instead of a pin.I only use this to get rif of any nasty bit of scraping marks that might occur

[Paul]

A razor blade, the old style double sided ones. They can be cut to a fine point

[Michel]

I always use a sharp Knife like a Sorgeon use it!
...and change the Knifeblade often!

[Benno]

A sharp razor blade. Martin here has some real good ones (got mine from him too).

[Maurice]

Big pieces with a scalpel, small lines with a piece of thin metal wire that's been kept in a flame for a couple of seconds.

[Chasseur]

Thank-you! all for the tips....Chass

[T. Dürrschmidt]

It´s also a good idea to freeze the figures. So the flash is easier to remove.

[Paul]

Freeze them? Would that work with all plastic types, and then with a scalpel or heated metal wire?

[T. Dürrschmidt]

With scalpel. It helps to make the flash harder... Works quite good. I don´t know if all kinds of plastic work with this method....

[dutchboyinohio]

Freezing the figures, what a good idea! I'm assuming then you'll also have a lot less fuzz left over once you're done cutting off the flash. That's always my biggest problem.

[ModernKiwi]

Of course none of this helps when you are dealing with Redbox's figures... For them I use a kitchen blowtorch to melt them down.

[Peter]

A sharp razor blade. Martin here has some real good ones (got mine from him too).

Me too (Martins razer blade )

Greetings Peter

[Paul]

Of course none of this helps when you are dealing with Redbox's figures... For them I use a kitchen blowtorch to melt them down.

It worked with the smurfs (sorry Dacians) from Strelets