  Strutinsky's averaging(SA) method is applied to multiquark droplets to
systematically extract the smooth part of the exact quantal energy and thereby
the shell correction energies. It is shown within the bag model that the
semi-phenomenological density of states expression given upto curvature order
is almost equivalent to the SA method. A comparative study of the bag model and
the relativistic harmonic oscillator potential for quarks is done to
investigate the quark mass dependence of the finite-size effects. It is found
that there is an important difference between these two cases, which may be
related to the presence/non-presence of the net spin-orbit effect.
