pandsrowe wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 9:53 am
Did you make templates to draw around, or some other method I'm not aware of?
I tend to be allergic to templates and jigs..........
The lining on this model was mostly done using the spring bow pen from the drawing set.
The type I have has a removable point, which I replaced with a piece of brass rod. Most of the straight lines were drawn using the edge of the panel as a guide. With a bit of care all the lines of the same colour end up the same distance from the panel edge that way.
Only a couple of bits of straight lining didn't have a panel edge available and they were done using a small plastic ruler as a guide, with a couple of bits of Blu-Tack to stop the ruler moving around.
The corners were done with a 000 sable brush, which was also used to clean up any lumps and bumps in the lining.
All the lining of a given colour was completed and fully dry, before changing colour. That way the settings of the spring bow pen only needed to be changed when the colour changed. A half hour in the oven at 80degC dried each panel, so the next could be applied, otherwise it would have taken a month to do the lining waiting a couple of days for each line to dry hard enough to handle.
The photo shows the only tools used on this model. Not needed this time, but the spring bow pen makes it very easy to follow curved panels like cabs, or put lining around window frames.
I use the ruling pens in the set with a plastic ruler as a guide on models with larger panels, as they carry more paint and the ruler is better supported on large panels such as tenders.
Regards,
Graeme
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