| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 12 May 2012 10:59 a.m. PST |
Anyone know where I can purchase decals for use on Horsa gliders? Fed up with painting invasion strips by hand so looking for some waterslide decals. Are you around Dom? |
 Doms Decals  | 12 May 2012 11:41 a.m. PST |
Not come across anything sorry – stripe decals tend to be more trouble than they're worth, as usually they're going on a tapered surface, so either they're carefully designed for an exact fit on a specific model, or they're not and therefore they *will* go wonky and not join up properly, as well as appearing askew on the aircraft sides, since a straight decal on a tapered surface, is going to end up "leaning" aft lower on the fuselage…. [Edit] Easier to show than explain properly:
The fuselage bands on this sheet are tailored to fit a Wings Of War Albatros – you can see they're quite obviously curved, but when applied to the model, the stripes are neat and vertical around the fuselage:
If the decal was straight (or indeed curved, but not specifically to fit that model) it would end up looking wonky when applied. |
| Mike G | 12 May 2012 1:48 p.m. PST |
I-94 makes stripe decals. |
| Doms Decals | 12 May 2012 2:08 p.m. PST |
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| Dark Knights And Bloody Dawns | 13 May 2012 5:13 a.m. PST |
Cheers Dom your a saint. Sage advice as always. Thanks Mike G, I'll probably get the roundels from I-94. |
| GeoffQRF | 14 May 2012 4:02 a.m. PST |
Hmm, looks like ours are sold out… again
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| Doms Decals | 14 May 2012 6:20 a.m. PST |
Damn, didn't even know you did them; good to see the curvature on the fuselage ones. [Stops and looks puzzled.] Umm, do you make a Horsa then…? |
| GeoffQRF | 14 May 2012 6:40 a.m. PST |
Nope. Those are actually 'fighter sized' (the bands were different width for fighters and bombers, according to Aircraft of the Fighting Powers, 1944). They were originally produced for a semi-special order (special order, but we decided we would do them anyway, as no-one else seemed to have any). They have sold out twice now. |
| GeoffQRF | 15 May 2012 8:09 a.m. PST |
P.S. It seems that AIM make a Horsa…
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| Doms Decals | 15 May 2012 8:44 a.m. PST |
Yeah, there are a couple out there, one reason decals are problematic – fit them perfectly for one make, and they're bound to not quite fit on another…. |
finds himself in the Workbench with several 15mm scale Russian WWII fighters...
