Making Maps for Your Article
No real skill or special equipment is needed to make decent small maps. Take an atlas map in a conveniently large scale, and trace the essential outline with thick-line fibre pen, eliminating superfluous details. Finer lines can be traced in with a medium pen. If your hand-lettering is unclear then type your required text, reduce/enlarge it to size on your village photocopier, and gum it in. Then reduce the finished map by photocopier to a size suitable for the DCA Bulletin, to check that the text and details are still legible. Total cost 15 to 20p. If you make a mistake just stick a piece of white adhesive label over it, photocopy, and draw that part again. Drawings for the Bulletin cover could be made much the same way, tracing design drawings with heavier outlines and eliminating superfluous detail. Of course some skill is required in tracing the curved lines (using French curves or etc) and some judgment in knowing which lines to emphasize and what to leave out.