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Morning folks. I've begun work on an Airfix 1:72 Vulcan. This is my first kit for more years than I care to remember,and will post some photos when it's finished for comment if I can pluck up the courage!. One thing I've come up against already is to do with re-scribing. Because the original detail is raised, I decided to use the raised edges as a guide for the scribe marks. I'm doing a lot of it prior to assembly because I don't want to be handling large awkward shapes and it seems to be working so far; I've got both wings dome and am part-way through the upper fuselage. However, due to the scale, I don't want the lines to be too wide and have opted to scribe by using a scalpel (I'm using a Swann Morton handle with 10A blade). However, after sanding the raised pieces off, the scribe lines fill with dust which I can't easily remove. I've gone over all of the lines again several times again using the reverse edge of the blade so as not to deepen the cuts, but can't remove all of the dust. I can't brush them out either so have tried immersing the parts in water and soaking them out, I've also using a small nailbrush on the wet parts, but the dust still seems to be stubbornly embedded in many of them although it is coming out very slowly coming out. I suspect that the scalpel blade is too fine. What tools do others use for scribing while keeping the lines as fine as possible?
