Love the styrene and blu-tack jig for doing curved lines... ...just an aside - a small wood workers vice with padded jaws helps to hold bodies still for gluing/painting. I haven't attempted coach building yet but I find them invaluable when I am building my P.O wagons. Even in gauge 1 an extra set of hands comes in very handy. Finally, and I haven't used paint in a bowpen before, but as a young draughtsman back in last century (yes, I am that old) I was taught to try to keep the bowpen as upright as possible so that gravity enabled an even flow of ink to avoid skips in the lines. Obviously India ink is thinner than Humbrol.... but who knows.... 🙂
I'm having a hard time finding really helpful guides for using ruling pens for lining in this scale, so thank you do much for posting these videos! I'm currently planning a repainting project for a couple of locos, and need to re-line tenders, tanks, and cab sides in this scale. Have you ever had much luck painting more complex curves with your ruling pens? I'm thinking that I might need to make a set of curve templates out of styrene, like you have, but I can see this becoming a bigger project than decorating the actual loco.
