One of the most essential skills needed for any modeller and one that must be mastered early on is the art of removing the kit parts from the plastic sprues that they come attached to. If done correctly during the initial assembly, a lot of time can be saved when preparing a model for painting.

In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate a couple of easy ways to remove the parts from the sprue.

Text version with pics can be found here : http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/assembly/removingparts.html