3 magic letters: D, L and M. Because sometimes the car doesn’t look at its best inside the blister on its card. Everyone’s got a different way of opening them up; some simply tear off the blister with varying degrees of care, some use acetone to dissolve the adhesive bonding the blister to the card, and perhaps some new and inventive way that hasn’t been posted here yet. Here we have a black Porsche 934 Turbo RSR by Hot Wheels...
... a corner of the card is frayed. Well, I’ve done things on flimsier pretexts.
I’m quite partial to my Maped craft scalpel (difficulty sourcing new blades asides), and among the myriad things it’s done for me is help liberate cars from their blisters. It’s easier on the blade than papercrafting anyway...
I’ve done this with craft knives and box cutters, but nothing matches the precision I’ve gotten out of this scalpel. You can cut the blister real close with a blade this controllable.
That’s the bottom cut out. The seam is barely visible... for now that is.
With the sides cut out as well, it’s a lot easier to show it off. Yes, it was bent for effect.
That’s all four sides of the blister severed from the card, now all I have to do is lift it off...
There.
Time to get her right side up and roll her off to showcase the card...
Asides from a small nick in the lower left corner where I got a little too close to the card, it’s certainly looking a lot better than most post-DLM cards.
Right, where to from here?
Uh... hello officer?