Re: Scribing....ugh.....
I have a few scribing tools i use none of them.......:lol
If the handle is to long i feel i dont have control if its
to thin it's hard to hold.......bla bla bla.
I always fall back to the exacto knife #11 blade
using it with the cutting edge up. To do curved lines
i use evergreen strip styrene not the thin stuff though.
Use something 2 to 3mm in thickness and tape it down.
Your first pass should barely make a mark, build up pressure
as you feel the groove is well developed that the knife is riding through.
I find a new blade with a fresh tip a little rolly polly
to work with, i find that if i snap off the "VERY" tip i gain a
little more control it slows the knife down just a bit. if your looking
for a super narrow panel line then use the fresh blade, if you want it a tad wider then keep the blade with the broken tip in your box, you can put it
in your knife and come back and widen later if you like.
Scribing panel lines is a technique .......that means practice!:lol
You could be the worst model builder and be the best panel line
scriber, they are two different things. I scribe on raw high impact
poly styrene, it has a "softness" to it makes scribing kind of easy.
if your scribing on a plastic kit those tend to be a harder more dense
surface. If you have some old kits that are going out the door or some
kits that would just make good practice.......thats a great place to work
on technique.:thumbsup
Thanks
