no, but from what I've seen in my (very limited) experience of chainmail, the links each moving around on the edges gives it the look of being tattered, and also you wouldn't cut through the links to make the perfect V shape on the edges, it would be more stepped. But yeah, it's probably just me. I like to "dirty up" the models where possible =) IHawk: will this character be posted? She's great! SewerRat