Making my own model kits decals. MAKING MY OWN MODEL KITS DECALSby John Mansolas - March 2. This page will tell you how to design and produce. I reveal here the. I got via experimentation which lead me to the point to be able to. Definitely and old model kit freak. I was forced to discover this hobby accidentally. I ordered and paid special decals for my kits. Free Download Testor Decal Maker Software. Software 41-80 of 120. Pages: Go to << Prior 1 2. M2 Information 2 11 This program is free to download and use. Guide for Creating Custom Decals (1/1) Skeeve: Skeeve’s Guide to making your own decals. Decal Bonder (I am using Testors Decal Bonder) Distilled Water Lacquer Overcoat (I use Testors Model Master Semi-Gloss or Lusterless. Testors Custom Decal System. It contains : Decal maker software, Special. I was too mad when I found out that to make decals for my trains I would have to buy another program. Making Your Own Decals. A Suppliment to the Wonderfest Decal Making Demo. When it comes to detailing models, probably the one thing that is the most sought after is the ability to make custom decals. What software should I use to make my own decals. Another option is a cheap CAD program. Buy Decal System: Hobby Building Tools & Hardware - Amazon.com FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases. Testor Decal Maker Freeware Downloads by stickers-decals.com, Ayush Agrawal, Brian Obsheatz,John Hayes,John Dilley, decalscript.sourceforge.net. Then I explored the blank. I learned again the hard way. Last but not least I. Well if you manage. THE REASONS WHYNow why one should ever bother do that ? Well , I have. discovered 7 main reasons for it , which are the following ones : You can not find those very personalized ones. A model is something of your own choice , part of your own. You may find similar ones but you cannot get them. They are at times lousy and old with some rare. They are often expensive - at times very. You can reproduce them as many times as you. You may be cheated , as I had , if sold to. Another one produced them on a wrong. Overall I have lost in this. I decided to learn how to do it myself Although rare , however it happened to me twice : decals. THE PRINTERYou should only use a LASER PRINTER based. YMCB or Yellow, Magenta , Cyan and. Let Humans Design Your Custom Decal. Experience our custom decal maker where humans (yep) actually design your custom decal and not a robot. Want to see how this works? All the decals where printed on Clear Decal Paper and as you. If you are liable to this mistake for a long time then lock the layers you are afraid to destroy accidentally and the program will. Scribus is an open source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix. Decal Impressions A Division of Magnetic Marketing Solutions. Black. Although some people. I found out that these are simply. That , expensive stuff , never worked with me . The color there burns deeply the thin film layer of the decal. I tried one for about 1 day with absolute. Before you tell me that a laser printer is expensive , I. Do you have a friend who has one and will let you use it. If so , don't bother for the money. If you have to buy one then now there is a solution and it. SAMSUNG CLP- 3. 15 , available in. I bought it for 1. SAMSUNG CLP- 3. 15. Despite some hard - at times horrible - comments in some. I tried it with a friend who has bought one for. I discovered that all comments were biased and most. After having done some experimentation I rushed to. I'm pleased for my choice . As with all laser printers the ink is. Which is the printer that does. The four toners. of the SAMSUNG CLP- 3. Luckily the SAMSUNG CLP- 3. SAMSUNG CLP- 3. 15 opened. You know , with your personal decals you are more than. The only limitation is that with laser printers ,of all kinds , some. Even with commercial decals. This you may either accept as is or. The. design software has easy ways of changing any colors to any strength thus. THE PAPERHmmm. Believe it or not the blank paper on which you have. I have found so far only 2. UK from a special modelers shop and the other in US. For. some reason the first one sells limited quantities and at a double price than. US guy. The US guy sells plenty of them on- line and half the price in. So try this link to Tango- Papa Decals. Pricing Clear. Decal Paper. Price. White. Decal Paper. Price. per sheet. Letter. size (8. 5. The most important choice here is to select the A4 only. The US letter size does not properly fill the Samsung tray while. A4 is just the thing. The next choice is Clear. Decal Paper or White Decal Paper. The answer here is. Laser. Printers never print white !! Clear paper actually means Transparent , that is there is a. In case you put decals on a model painted. The same goes for aircraft say of the US navy painted white or very light. If however you want to produce , say white letters on a. Transparent will only be seen. You may of course try to paint previously on the model a. I. tried it successfully 2- 3 times but you may do almost the same and even better. White Decal Paper. Here. , the background film where the decals will be printed is white. This white however. This ' exact '. color can be achieved with the software of course but in the worst of cases you. See the picture of the model. This F4. F Wildcat model in 1/4. Hobby. Boss). depicts the personal plane of Cpt John Thatch at the Battle of Midway with. Felix the Cat ( his personal emblem ) and the white numbers 2. By the way until that. I had not yet applied the US star insignia, that's why they are. At the same time. I had to 'mask' the rest around the white of the decals with a. Watch below the printed decal how it looks like. I put it on the model I create a colored area of. I can later cut- down to what is a. Preferably I cut as close as possible. I then correct if necessary with some model. On the contrary the black No 2. Clear Decal paper because as. I could have used the same technique as the black is a. In that case of course the white. To the right you see another one of my projects. The model was taken from an old. Matchbox kit for the Blue Angels. I wanted however to create the. Holden as Lt Brew baker with this 2. B group , VMF 1. 92. The model exists with Monogram in 1/. So I made them , all with White background and. Revel paint SM3. 50. I used for the model . A similar job was done to. Col. Steve Sprios Pisanos the American Eagles and USAFace and at the same time my modelist friend Bill Bell from New. Jersey. We both bought a P- 4. C from an old Revell kit in 1/3. Miss Plainfiled' Spiros was. The decals are sold with Hannants for the 1/4. Spiros himself told us and provided. These decals were of course very large so I. I printed it 3 times , the second one. Bill and the third for a friend of his who admires Spiros too . By. the way I do not do a commercial business here , it is just between. I only do it and for free These decals are of course unique in the world and. I'm proud of it . We also added the name of the pilot below the. Well.. this did not exist in 1. OUR decals , No ? Much was the work of course with the nose art for. Miss Plainfield' , it took me 2 days , but it did worth the effort The upper surface color used is the acrylic Tamiya. XF- 5. 1 khaki green and lower surface the light gray Tamiya XF- 1. So everything depends on what color backgrounds you'll. In general both Clear and White decal papers may. I usually order enough quantities of both . THE SOFTWAREAnd here we go to the most beautiful part of the art. In. theory any software that can finally print seems to do the job but for the needs. I. guess there is a variety out there of photo- printing stuff but if you ask me. Paint Shop Proof Jasc software. It has all the advantages of a simpler version with the. The official site of the company is . I think this . rather old version , can be freely downloaded or is shareware. I found this link. The present advanced version is the 1. I do suggest the 5 as the more simple for the. The main advantages and utilities needed for decals are. I'm sure other similar products can do the same (Corel. Draw , Illustrator ) but it is essential not to get lost with many other. All my examples shown below are made with the Paint. Shop Pro 5 ( PSP5 ) . Define. PSP5 preferences & A4 paper size for your paper. Upon choosing New File to create a new decal drawing file. You should choose first the unit of measurement . For A4 the centimeters is Width = 2. Height=2. 9,1 cm . The resolution 1. X 2. 91. 0 . The background color is unimportant but the default white is OK for. Image Type of 1. 6. Set the ruler by using the menu option View and. Ruler - and you may like to add. Grid. Then set on File > Preferences. Undos you may want to be able to do ( more is better than. I prefer at least 1. RAM for an image - I usually try 3. Mb. For the time being ignore the checkered background you see. Rather pay attention to the values indicated by the rulers and. Be careful : the zoom in/out affects the. In full size you get divisions every 2. I have also given a name. Now .. shall we make a different. Although yes is a valid answer I'll tell you to. You rarely have so large decals that will cover an entire A4. Normally you have many. If this is the case you can collect 5 or 6 or even more. You'll see later that by using layers you'll be able. This. however will make your memory very large until , if not careful , your RAM will. I usually make files up to some 1. Mb large but no more . Then. only I start with a new file The model details. PART. 1 : Find profiles ,Pictures and Logos. We decide to do a VIKING. MD- 9. 0 from the Hasegawa scale 1/2. Start searching for profiles , pictures and logos. There are many that. D views of. profiles on the internet : http: //richard. You may systematically. For this one Google was enough. First page of Google. Search Pictures comes already with a MD- 9. Even with copyrighted stuff we will not reproduce. We’ll only use part of them for. We. finally chose the picture below : MD- 9. You may consider to fill- in. You. may as well do a search for the picture of a Viking MD- 9. Google : Viking. MD- 9. So will do this model with the. Try. also to find the Viking Logo in Google which provides us with this picture : Viking. Logo. Fine ! An excellent. Viking head. for the tail and the Viking letters for the fuselage . Windows and doors we can. MD- 9. 0 profile or we may use our own artistic talents to. Prepare a resized profile that suits your model size The. Open the. MD- 9. 0 profile and cut down to the limits of the picture that correspond to the. This. area you have to Select by using the Selection Tool with the rectangular symbol . Keep always the Controls View open. You may. also use on occasions the . We choose this option because we want to work and modify independently. The other options integrate it without a possibility of change. We’ll. get this result : The present pictures measures. We want to use a profile where this. We measure it on the model to be 1. Width = 1. 94. 0 in pixels for our page We then use the Image> Resize. Menu of PSP5 , where we pay attention to keep checked the two boxes on the. Maintain Aspect ratio and Resize. All Layers , the usual default setting. That way the Height will be. Same thing is if we know. Height , then the Width is calculated automatically. Be Careful here : Commands are passed from the same menu but to. Title- Bar on top. Windows applications Be careful to make sure where you are. If in error use. the Undo Option ( I do use it very often I am afraid ! Use from menu Layer> Properties and let’s name it. MD- 9. 0 profile . So the VIKING layer should be. MD- 9. 0 profile – not the other way round .
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