Some comments to die cutting of holes:
If you look at the radiator grill of the jeep, then you will detect one of the parts, causing some headache to the modelbuilder, if he wants to cut out the part in a clean and solid way.
Some tips to the work with such parts, should abrade the furrowed brows.
The slits have a hole with a diameter of 1,6 mm at each end, so we need an acceptable tool. I have found a solution by using hypodermic needles, not for human but for animals. Some ranchers inoculate their cows by themselves and the fur of a cow is ambitious for such a needle. Under the adress:
http://www1.westfalia-versand.at/shops/a...dheit/kanuelen/ you can take a look at such instruments of torture. There was also a solution to my 1,6 mm problem in the ordered set.
I cut off the cone end exactly in 90 degrees with a little cut-off wheel in my mini drill. Then I used a small conus cutter a make a sharp barrier to the inside of the tube. The cylindric outer form of the tube makes it easy to place it accuratly on the printed circle or you can use a little sheet of transparent plastic with a hole in the same diameter of the tube as a help.
I don't use a hammer to die cut the hole, but use a little press to do it. The most of us were owner of such a little press, like a drill rig for a drill machine - it is strong enough.
First close the chuck to become a little even area. As a base I use a sheet of hard plastic (2 mm thickness). Place the papersheet with the printed outline nearly in the middle of the chuck and put the tube exactly to the center of the hole. Now you can pull the lever and the tube punches a wonderful hole into the paper. For the next hole you must remove the little disc out of the tube with a needle.
This little press is also useful with commercial hole punchs, just put them into the chuck.
Kindly regards
Josef