Rescribing Panel Lines

Hi all,

I was wondering if any of you have any tips, tricks, or sage wisdom when it comes to rescribing panel lines. I'm not talking so much about new lines where there were none before, but rather improving panel lines which are really dodgy - such as like on some resin kits.

I've had average success with redoing them by imprinting almost dry putty which was put in the dodgy panel line, but it's a bit hit and miss.

Does anyone have any tried and true method which gives good results?
And won't drive us insane trying to get it right...

Cheers all,
Mark

For redoing straight lines I find those etched saws are excellent. They're straight already so knock off the lumpy bits with ease. For rebuilding areas I use super glue, it sticks and dries better than putty. Curved parts are best done with the back of a hobby knife blade or a sewing needle in a pin vice for the very tricky bits.

Until 24 hours ago I have never had great success. Then I discovered a method that works beautifully on all surfaces and curves. I have two tools though that I had to get. First off I have an actual "panel scriber" from Squadron I believe, and I have SRC's etch scribers. The panel line tool is too wide at the tip so I sanded it down to a finer tip. I first scribe over the lines to widen them a bit more than they came from the mold. When that is done I use the SRC blade to get more depth. If you go very slowly with the SRC blade you can take out even amounts every time. I have never had better lines this way. If you can't get the SRC blades use the back of an Exacto like mentioned above. If you can, get a hold of a panel line scriber it will help in many situations.

Jon

Yeah like from above, the Squadron PANEL SCRIBER works good i havent had to find anything else.

I found all those tools great: CA+accelerator to fill (I also like 2K automotive poliester putty despite it smell hard) PE scribers, backside of the knife, panel line tools, PE saw to smooth the edge at last: but where I really found an help was on templates: I ever used this labeler tool's tape:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c159/gionc/CIMG5250.jpg

I's flexible, stick very well and cheap. If I have to do very closed curves I do myself a 0.5mm styrene template glued on the model with white glue or, when possible, with rubber bands or grabs.

Scribers really work well for me, not until a couple weeks ago i finally got around to scribing new door lines pretty well. I use a couple pieces of tape on top of each other. Serves as a good edge and will make a straight line if your patient. Before i used to free hand and had scribed scribbles. Other than that i use two part putty as regular putty seems to break apart once scribed.