"Making flight deck decals" Topic
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| hindsTMP | 24 Jan 2009 11:51 a.m. PST |
Does anyone have any links to on-line articles on making one's own carrier flight deck decals for 1:6000? The process I recall involved printing an image of the flight deck from a PC program such as Photoshop. The image was then sent to an ink jet printer, and printed on some sort of special paper (either home-made or purchased; I'm not sure). The result was then applied as a decal to the model. Any help would be appreciated!!
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miscmini  | 24 Jan 2009 1:05 p.m. PST |
You can buy decal paper for ink-jet or laser-jet printers. The last time I did so I bought it from Bare-Metal Foil. link Their website has the paper & a short how-to. I've seen clear and white paper. I create the image in MS Power Point, print it on ink-jet paper (I have an ink-jet printer), and seal it with Krylon Crystal Clear gloss (aerosol). Here are a couple of other TMP threads on homemade decals. Kevin TMP link
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| xtrema01 | 24 Jan 2009 3:55 p.m. PST |
I just bought several of the Toshach Minitures sets for $5 USD apiece and I was very statisfied with the quality. The only issue I had was that my printer was "off" a little so I printed out the label using plane paper, measured the label and the length of the carrier deck and did some quick math to get a scale factor and printed out a scaled second check print, cut out the check print to do a fit test, if everything looked good, (it did) I then printed out the final glossy photo paper. I hope Toshach produces decals for all of the 6000 Scale carriers, then maybe 2400 / 3000 scale. John |
| KenH01 | 24 Jan 2009 3:56 p.m. PST |
link Premade Flightdecks for WW1 1:6000 Ken |
| KenH01 | 24 Jan 2009 3:57 p.m. PST |
John You beat me to it by a minuite!! Ken |
| hindsTMP | 25 Jan 2009 7:23 p.m. PST |
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