STEP 081 > You want to take your pencil and trace all along the inside edges.

STEP 082 > What we want to do now is create 90 degree angled corners - red dotted lines.

STEP 083 > Take your ruler and align it with the top, bottom and side lines and then take your pencil to continue the line till you reach the end of the rectangle.

STEP 084 > Do the same thing for every side of the traced frame.

STEP 085 > You will now have a rectangle inside a rectangle. this is where you will want to cut out your shape now. You want to ignore the corner angles from the Layer 1 and 4 frames. You will be ignoring the previous lines hidden by the squiggly red lines.

STEP 086 > You want to start at one of the corners and slice down but stop just before you reach the other end. This is to prevent you from having your slice go beyond the corner line and destroying your layer 2 and 3 frames.

STEP 087 > Repeat the same method for each side. Start in one corner and stop before you reach the end. Keep that blade straight ! don't angle your wrist when slicing.

STEP 088 > Now reverse direction start on opposite corners, push the blade down, then slide till you connect with where you stopped in your first cuts.

STEP 089 > Flip the rectangle over to the other side and examine the corners (red circles) to see if there are any cuts that don't connect. If so, simply use your blade to complete the connection of your cuts.

STEP 090 > Just like that, your center rectangle should now pop out really easily.

STEP 091 > This is the shape that will be used for your layer 2 and 3 door pieces.

STEP 092 > Now grab another rectangle base and the frame you just cut out.

STEP 093 > Place the cut out frame on top and align it with each side of the bottom foamcore.

STEP 094 > Take your pencil and just as you did before, trace along the outline of the inner shape. Make sure to hold, put enough pressure on the top frame so it doesn't wiggle around as you trace and give you a false shape that doesn't match the top frame's shape when cut.

STEP 095 > You now have your layer 3 rectangle ready for slicing.

STEP 096 > Cut along the lines just as you did in steps 086 to 088.

STEP 097 > And just like that, pop out this center piece and put it aside for later use.

STEP 098 > Your top frame for layer 3 is complete.

STEP 099 > To make the Large Blast Door, you need 4 double thick frames. We already did the top layers for all 4 frames now we have to create the double layer effect. Simply grab your 4 remaining identical rectangles...

STEP 100 > And place each of the 4 cut top layers over the basic rectangles.


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