Cutting out 4mm scale BR totems

[Colin1501]

After a bit of advice. I recently acquired some bespoke station signs from Sankey Scenics, including some BR totems (see picture attached). Of course, most of the signs are easy to cut out from the master sheet because they are rectangular. However, does anyone have any tips on how to accurately cut out the totems? Actual size is around 12mm long.

Grateful for any thoughts.

 

[Cowley]

Hmm tricky. I bought some signs for my railway (which is N gauge so quite fiddly) and had to cut out all the individual ones. I used sharp scissors for that. I think I’d use scissors and a magnifying glass personally but they are quite an awkward shape.

 

[pdeaves]

Sharp craft knife and steel rule for the top/bottom, plus parallel bits stuck out the side, then scissors for the rest. Or custom-make a perfectly-sized punch...

 

[Peter C]

I'd use a sharp craft scalpel (held upside-down so the end of the blade is pointing down towards the page with the not (so) sharp side of the blade facing up, if that makes any sense) and go quite slowly around each one. It might be easier to cut them into strips of totems and then cut them out?

-Peter

 

[fourtytwo]

Another thing that helps is a bench magnifier and good lighting, but maybe that's just my eyesight!