Making Weld Beads, an MSW SBS

Evolution of the Technique

The tool & technique I discovered is similar to that used by armour modellers to create weld beads. They use an Xacto blade with a broken tip to score plastic; but I don't know if they use a plastic strip as the foundation for the bead.

I feel that using my tool is safer to use than a broken Xacto blade... no sharp edges to have to worry about other than the tip.

AND... using my tool & technique gives more realistic weld beads, since it imparts the proper semi-circular arc to the bead and allows the bead to dome up. Using the tip of a broken blade gives flat scores and does not make the plastic dome up.