Last night I was playing around with my Mig 29, and had a brain wave about making the raised panel lines stand out.
I loaded the ab with some enamel paint and traced the raised lines.
Got home from work tonight and gave the body a spray with some acrylic paints.
After about an hour, I grabbed a Qtip, dipped it in some acrylic thinner, and LIGHTLY went over the raised panel lines.
Allowing for the fact I was only testing this theory, it turned out pretty well.
With a bit more patience, and a lighter touch, I reckon this will make rescribing panels only necessary when I absolutely have to.
I’m curious aqs to whether anyone else has played around with this idea, and if so how did theirs turn out?
I have a Japanese Mavis covered in rivets I’ve been putting off because of the scribing thing, and this may just work for that too.
I guess I’m a cheater on raised panel lines. I use watercolor pencils or the chalk pastel pencils I just discovered. I usually overcoat them with clear lacquer, so it turns out durable.
Your idea can also be done by lightly rubbing through the overcoat with the back of an x-acto knife. That’ll give a little more control than a q-tip offers. Especially with enamel on the bottom, and acrylic over the enamel lines, the chance of grinding through the enamel isn’t too bad.
I use a pencil. You need one that’s fairly hard. Rather than use the point, I run the side lightly over the panel line to highlight it. Then seal it.
I just found a great article by swanny’s models about how to convert (scribed) raised lines to recessed panel lines. Here it is. I think I’ll give it a try it solves a lot of problem later on when you need to finish the model. http://www.swannysmodels.com/Scribing.html
Steve