Last year I struggled to easily remove 10mm figures from the Wargames Atlantic Samurai and Ashigaru sprues. The weapons were breaking left and right. I initially was using a hobby hobby knife or clippers and quickly gave up. I then tried using a hot hobby knife. There was some success, but too much ended up bending and melting too much of the weapons. I had no solution to smoothly safely remove each set of figures so I shelved by boxes of Samurai and Ashigaru.
A year later I stumbled on fine hobby saws. I suspect it was just chance while browsing Facebook or YouTube. I had never used fine hobby saws before apart from using the Exacto Razor Saw that I've used for cutting wood. I did some research on hobby saws and decided to give Tamiya Photo Etched saw blades a go. The saws are supposedly 0.1mm in thickness with fine saw teeth.
It turns out using the Tamiya saw blades to slowly cut the figures from the sprues is the way to go. Maybe I am late to the fine saw blade game, but I guess better late than never and I have reversed course on Wargames Atlantic Samurai sets.
Video describing how to use the saw blade:
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