Rescribing panel lines
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Rescribing panel lines
WHat is my basic set up to rescribe panel lines in terms of tools? I'm currently using a scalpel but it just doesn't cut it
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Dymo tape and a pin or needle in a pin-drill finger vise
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Ditto, use a sharp sewing needle, (a pin will more likely bend). Do several light passes to build up the desired depth. Lightly sand to remove the burr, and then rescore to remove sanding dust. Finally some people run a light coat of liquid poly over the lines, this softens minor imperfections and dissolve any remaining dust.fredk wrote:Dymo tape and a pin or needle in a pin-drill finger vise
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Brilliant chaps. Thanks very much.
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Just found this tip online, put a needle into a mechanical pencil! Makes a scribe tool.
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
....but, how do you guys rescribe RAISED panel lines?
Up to now, I replaced them by scribing recessed ones, and that was ok looking in most cases, when I just had to overcome a small gap in the line.
I think if I want to make a new raised panel line, all I can do is take a very small amount of fine putty, and try to draw a straight line with it? or maybe take a very thin piece of sprue, glue it to the appropiate place, and sand it down, til it looks like a panel line?
Up to now, I replaced them by scribing recessed ones, and that was ok looking in most cases, when I just had to overcome a small gap in the line.
I think if I want to make a new raised panel line, all I can do is take a very small amount of fine putty, and try to draw a straight line with it? or maybe take a very thin piece of sprue, glue it to the appropiate place, and sand it down, til it looks like a panel line?
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Both methods will work, with the putty method place some tape against the line you need to fix, run some putty along it. let it set, remove the tape and give it a light rub with wet n dry to bring it down to the size of the original. If you have an airbrush you can also spray some primer along the tape rather than using putty.Crashpilot wrote:....but, how do you guys rescribe RAISED panel lines?
Up to now, I replaced them by scribing recessed ones, and that was ok looking in most cases, when I just had to overcome a small gap in the line.
I think if I want to make a new raised panel line, all I can do is take a very small amount of fine putty, and try to draw a straight line with it? or maybe take a very thin piece of sprue, glue it to the appropiate place, and sand it down, til it looks like a panel line?
With the stretched sprue method, if you can get it stretched enough to make it about the same thickness of the line then it can be a straight replacement. I square off the edge of the unaffected line with a knife and scrape the tapered part of the line away. that way you have a positive start and end point for the section of sprue to be layed.
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Thanks for your advise, Ray! I´ll try that.RayS wrote:Both methods will work, with the putty method place some tape against the line you need to fix, run some putty along it. let it set, remove the tape and give it a light rub with wet n dry to bring it down to the size of the original. If you have an airbrush you can also spray some primer along the tape rather than using putty.Crashpilot wrote:....but, how do you guys rescribe RAISED panel lines?
Up to now, I replaced them by scribing recessed ones, and that was ok looking in most cases, when I just had to overcome a small gap in the line.
I think if I want to make a new raised panel line, all I can do is take a very small amount of fine putty, and try to draw a straight line with it? or maybe take a very thin piece of sprue, glue it to the appropiate place, and sand it down, til it looks like a panel line?
With the stretched sprue method, if you can get it stretched enough to make it about the same thickness of the line then it can be a straight replacement. I square off the edge of the unaffected line with a knife and scrape the tapered part of the line away. that way you have a positive start and end point for the section of sprue to be layed.
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Re: Rescribing panel lines
Scribing is cutting into the plastic - like a V. So what you describe is not rescribing, you're trying to replace the raised (A) line not cut a V line. That might be easier gluing stretched sprue where you want the raised (A) sectionCrashpilot wrote:....but, how do you guys rescribe RAISED panel lines?
Up to now, I replaced them by scribing recessed ones, and that was ok looking in most cases, when I just had to overcome a small gap in the line.
I think if I want to make a new raised panel line, all I can do is take a very small amount of fine putty, and try to draw a straight line with it? or maybe take a very thin piece of sprue, glue it to the appropiate place, and sand it down, til it looks like a panel line?
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