chinagraph pencil

A Chinagraph pencil or other wax product will probably do the job, though it wipes off.

We all saw it then, a faint smudge as though the line of the horizon had been scored by the point of a black chinagraph pencil.

McKown put down his chinagraph pencil and straightened in his chair where he faced his air warfare display.

This map was Perspex-framed and the isobars had been drawn in with Chinagraph pencil on the Perspex.

The top of the bearing plate was designed to be drawn on with a chinagraph pencil so it could serve as a general navigation calculator as well.

A grease pencil or china marker (UK chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened grease.

Rollo's fingers were flicking at the switches, scribbling across the plot with his chinagraph pencil, his eyes scanning his instruments.

The map surface is also waxed so the crew could use chinagraph pencils and grease pens for navigation purposes, and then wipe the markings off later for re-use.

The drill was smooth but whatever was going on had certainly caught the team's concentration: men crouched across the PPIS, chinagraph pencils scrawled, operators muttered into their microphones.

The forward firing GPMGs were electrically operated, being fired by the pilot and aimed using a rudimentary system of drawing a small cross on the windscreen with a chinagraph pencil.

At the original ceasefire in 1964 Young drew a line on a map with a blunt green chinagraph pencil identifying the truce line between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities.

Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies, but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach.

When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed: a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions, a matching sheet of clear plastic, map-pins, chinagraph pencils in different colours.