Now that we've removed the paper backing from the styrene parts, we need to do a bit more clean up. If you take a close
look at the various laser cut parts, you'll see that there is sometimes some melted styrene around the edges where the
laser got a little too hot, or stayed in one place for a little too long. I'm not talking about the texture inside
the cuts, I'm talking about little styrene blisters that have melted onto the flat surfaces.
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This picture shows the parts I'm going to clean up. Because I am working with an older version of the kit at this
phase in the tutorial, not all the parts are pictured here. Basically, if it was laser cut, you'll want to do the following
clean up steps to it.
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Take some high grit sandpaper, say about 600, and run it over the edges of each piece. You don't want to reshape the styrene
pieces, or flatten them out. You just want to "deburr" the edges, and get rid of the zits that may have developed during
the cutting.
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Here's an example of a cleaned up piece. It might be hard to see the differences from these pictures, so use your best
judgment.
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For the sake of making this tutorial easy to understand, I have labeled my parts on the front fact. This was the side that
the paper was NOT glued to. I do this so that the builder can keep track of which way the various parts are supposed to face
in final assembly.
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