How important are panel lines to you?

[Snake45]

11 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Pictures of your results please.

I was gonna tell you to go look at anything I've ever posted, but realized that most of my pics were lost in the photobucketpocalype, and the ones I've posted since then have mostly been glue bomb/survivor restos (on which of course I don't do this), and polished plastic snappers, where I still scribe out the lines but seldom put anything in them after that (since the groove is body color and not white). I'll try tonight to find a good example to post for you.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I don't think it gets any better than this example from Mr. Cruz...

 

Edited February 28, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy

[Snake45]

Last week I Snake-fu'ed an AMT prebuilt Dodge Copperhead. It's molded in a beautiful metallic/pearl copper-orange. The original plan was to scribe out the door etc lines as I usually do, but these were the kind that are so wide that I know THAT usually doesn't work out. When I got everything else on it done, I used a flat brown acrylic paint in the panel lines. I'm not 100% happy with how it looks, but of the four possible options--do nothing to the lines, scribe them and make them worse, use black, or do what I did--I think I made the best choice. 

BTW, I had that paint on hand because I'd bought it specifically to do the door lines on a red-molded 2016 that I did rescribe. Haven't done that yet--when I got done, the scribed out lines looked marginally acceptable, but I knew I did NOT want to run black into them. 

[martinfan5]

So this bad boy, I am slowly doing a video for it.

Edited March 11, 2018 by martinfan5