Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Tips, Tools & Techniques => Topic started by: Frank3k on September 29, 2026, 12:38:49 AM
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I saw a video of a modeler who used a ceramic scraper to cleanly remove flash on a part. It was impressive, but the fancy Japanese scraper was expensive (about $35, with just one blade). I have a ceramic strip in my knife sharpening tool. It's bulky, but I used it on some flash and... it worked! So I ordered some ceramic blades from Amazon. One is a set of #11 blades, the other is a blade for the Olfa snappable cutter (both are white ceramic):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55555504939_be27f7af85_b.jpg)
The edges are ridiculously sharp and can easily cut/remove flash and cut through plastic with no problem. The blades are fragile, but the results are impressive.
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Have one of these in the kit for a while, yes they do work very well.
SMS here in Aus do these. Here (https://www.scalemodeller.com.au/products/ceramic-scraper)
I have to say though, for the vast majority of the time, putting down a knife, to get the ceramic scraper out to do a small seam line, mostly never happens. I use the knife I have in hand :-[