I ordered a Logan 2000 push style mat (mount) cutter on Thursday evening and it turned up this morning. As I felt a bit under the weather, we decided not to go out today so I tried to take my mind off my ills by seeing whether I could make anything of it. As readers of Jim-sw's layout thread will know, it is Jim's idea to use a mount cutter for creating bevelled edges in Plasticard so that you get better looking corners. He also commented on "wobbly" cuts which is definitely a bit of a problem when starting out. Whether or not it would be easier with one of the fancier cutters which come complete with parallel edge, I don't know and am unlikely too at £150 plus.
I did have several failures - both end walls started out as back walls but the second bevelled cut was a miserable failure, so I cut again to the shorter width. I've still got a couple of offcuts which are almost but not quite the same width as the back
I must have spent between 5 and 6 hours getting from the last photo to these. The problem with doing things in small stages is that you can't see the overall change. Each little change doesn't seem to do very much and constantly looking at the detail under a 4x magnifier does make the corners look really dodgy indeed.
About the only tip of my own to pass on from this episode is that I found it a great help to sellotape (and it was Sellotape) the plasticard to the steel rule to ensure that it wouldn't move when I was cutting it. I must have got through yards of the stuff.
Enough of the blather, here are some photos and though I say it myself I think the box is starting to look like one now. In fact it's so much like the real thing, I've taken three photos for your viewing pleasure.
I made some other purchases on Thursday night which are still in transit - some Ratio brick arch edging, a Wills interior kit, an aerosol of etch primer and some Railmatch dark brick paint.
David