Been playing with needle and masking tape to try scribing panel lines. It’s hard and time consuming >.<
First time I use needle to scribe panels, previously I would use tamiya scriber to just scribe a simple straight line. Dunno why but now I just want to try more complicated lines on non-flat surface. Leveling up my skills ^^
So many errors….You see the grey (or is it gray?) lines? It’s my first attempt. Failed so bad that I had to use putty and redid the lines.
Second attempt was also no good, putty one more time >.<
Third attempt, I tried at the back skirt and feet. Quite satisfied with the result this time.
practise does make you better
Third attempt on the thigh and knee guard. I am still having a little problem because of the plaplate extension for the thigh. As you can see below, the panel lines are at different width, dunno why but I cannot get the same size when my needle is scribing on top of the layered plaplates.
Panel line design is from Keita’s MG nu ver.4
And a small update on the arms. Sanded the right arm so the shape is more rectangular.
heathorn 
Looking good! Woah thats some complicated lines! I remember H4mster in his Sazabi post he actually used a pla plate to guide the lines for complicated shapes. Do you wait like a day for the puttied areas to dry before you rescribe? Under this impression that if you scribe those putttied areas they would come off or something.
Yes, for some part I use plaplate as a ‘ruler’.
but for rounded surface it’s hard so I use masking tape instead, and some other parts I just use feeling to scribe ^_^
For putty, I waited a whole night and the next day I start scribing again.
Panel line in a rounded shape area sure is challenging! Have you try a dymo tape? I just found out that it is easier to use as a guide (since its hard and sticky)
thx for the info, where can I get this tape?
I got the dymo tape at tampines Giant ^^. Can’t seem to find it else where though….
I also used it for scribing here
Hope it helps ^^
got the dymo tape yesterday at Vivo giant. It IS very useful.
nice level up on the panel lines, only tried it a few times myself and they didnt turn out too well lol for me the hard part would be coming up with the design. yours looks really awesome, keep it up ^^
thx!
I think we just need to do this often, will eventually get used to it. For design, I stole it from keita’s Nu ^_^