Thanks Mikkel, I don't think I've got any real tricks for cutting out the plastic sheet, the usual, very sharp blades (I generally use a stanley knife rather than a scalpel or excel blade) and don't cut too deeply to start with, mark sure you put plenty of pressure on the ruler and not too much on the knife otherwise the ruler slides away and takes the knife with it. With the large sheets of plasticard I tend to give it a sanding first, which may help prevent slipping but I do it more because it means the pencil actually leaves a mark on the card.

The arches are started using a compass like device I obtained from an art shop, has a knife blade on one end and is intended for cutting out circles in card. Great however for cutting perfect circles in thin plasticard and give a good start in thicker card by scribing the circle allowing you to use a craft knife with a fine blade (not the stanley knife this time) to slowly par away the material till you reach the scribed line.

When it comes to cutting out window frames (I'm going to be using a lot of the ones from the kit for this building but will have to make some), I try to make the frame as exact a match for the window opening as possible. Whilst I love the etch ones that can be bought, I tend to find that I can be a bit clumsy cutting windows openings which then means the etch is too small for the opening, leaving an unrealistic amount of frame exposed.

I'm very impressed with your modelling on your Farthing thread/blog and the painting is beyond anything I could hope to achieve - keep up the good work.

Regards

Rovex