Long ago there was an article on making a Beugler pinstripe lookalike published in MEW.

If anybody knows which issue it would save a lot of looking through on my part.

More importantly, has anybody made one and did it work and was it worth the effort?

Failing that has anybody got any foolproof methods of putting 1/4" lines on a stlightly over half size steam lorry. I have been fooling around with a lining brush for a while and we just don't seem to be getting along. It's not her it's me.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

Just found it Issue 155 by Dave Fenner.

Still interested to know if anybody other than Dave has made one and how you got on lining.

Martin

Thanks for all the replies.

To Paul L and Dalboy for links to the UNO lookalike as Circlip notes. Like Circlip I remember the UNO from Drawing Office days and have a fair selection of them in the back of the drawer still. I have tried them on paint and the results were not great, probably need more clearance to function on paint. To be fair, they weren't great on ink either – the Rotring was like waking from a nightmare!

Anyway, the real problem is that I need to do 1/4" lines and while twin lines with a UNO and fill in the gap with a brush is possible it is very slow. Some of my 4" Burrell was done that way with a draughtsman's pen rather than a UNO.

Thanks to KWIL and Paul R for the experience on lining tapes. I might go that route as I do have some curves to do.

I went down the scrap mine last night to see if a Dave Fenner pen might appear and I have found some scrapium that might be suitable.

However, there is a more interesting possibility as a result of this thread, which I will tell you about if it comes to fruition.

Thanks to everybody, an excellent forum as ever,

Martin