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Old 01-13-2018, 03:16 PM   #1
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Messed up Panel Lines, seeking advice.

I have an old discontinued S15 kit that I built as a kid but I'd like to fix and redo it. It has messed up panel lines, either too large, or has jagged edges in certain locations because of mistakes I made back then.

I've found information on deepening, or creating new panel lines, but not much info on repairing existing panel lines so I'm looking for advice on how you guys might approach something like this.

Do you guys just fill the old panel lines with putty and draw new ones using templets? I haven't tried anything yet but I'm worried I would end up with no panel lines at all and that the putty would just crack under a blade or scriber.

The car I'm talking about is this:

This is an old picture, i'd take a new one but it's currently sitting in break fluid. For example the panel line beneath the door is way too big and there's too large of a gap at the corner as well. How would you go about fixing something like this?

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