I use my cutter for as much as I can. Logo's and repeatable shapes are great on it though, cutting lettering accurately is never easy by hand and also very time consuming.
On the Short Course Durango shell I did it's covered in stars, trying to cut all them by hand would have taken a day, the cutter did it in a few minutes. Also the circuitry on the last RX shell I did would have been almost impossible without a cutter, maybe not impossible but I don't think I would have stayed calm enough and not lost the plot trying to do it by hand...
I use the grey mask as it's not too tacky, have tried blue in the past and found it too thick, usually they use that one when they're doing trucks and trailers with painted logo's. Also I found the blue one left glue residue which was awkward clean up so I prefer the grey paint mask.
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