MARKING AROUND THE BEND.
Faced with the task of drawing lines around a round fuselage can present real problems,next time that you need to do this spend a few minutes making a really simple tool.
Take a sheet of thickish but bendy Plastikard and from one edge cut off a selection of strips say quarter,half and three quarters of an inch,to cut this material simply score a line with a scribing tool or if you have one an Olfa scribe tool,bend the card at right angles and gently snap off the strip,next run the edge along a permagrit tool and slightly feather the edges with some wet and dry paper used wet.
The smoother the better as it will mean a nice clean run with your ink pen.
For the actual marking use an Edding 1800 0.1 artists pen (obtainable from artists & graphics suppliers ) wrap the tool around the curved surface if necessary tacking with gentle adhesived backed masking tape and mark with the Edding or similar pen.
You can pre mark ailerons,details etc with pencil marks onto the tissue and just line up with the homemade rule.
While you are making the Plastikard rules make one with right angles to execute ailerons and flaps,you will find these small bendy rules very useful when decorating your models.
Faced with the task of drawing lines around a round fuselage can present real problems,next time that you need to do this spend a few minutes making a really simple tool.
Take a sheet of thickish but bendy Plastikard and from one edge cut off a selection of strips say quarter,half and three quarters of an inch,to cut this material simply score a line with a scribing tool or if you have one an Olfa scribe tool,bend the card at right angles and gently snap off the strip,next run the edge along a permagrit tool and slightly feather the edges with some wet and dry paper used wet.
The smoother the better as it will mean a nice clean run with your ink pen.
For the actual marking use an Edding 1800 0.1 artists pen (obtainable from artists & graphics suppliers ) wrap the tool around the curved surface if necessary tacking with gentle adhesived backed masking tape and mark with the Edding or similar pen.
You can pre mark ailerons,details etc with pencil marks onto the tissue and just line up with the homemade rule.
While you are making the Plastikard rules make one with right angles to execute ailerons and flaps,you will find these small bendy rules very useful when decorating your models.