07-03-2021, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Earl
I recently opened a sealed kit. Here are scans of the face card, decals, and fins. The screen printing on the blue colors on the decals sheet leave a bit to be desired.
Earl
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Thank you for scanning and posting those. Bare Metal-Foil carries the "Experts Choice" water-transfer decal film (see: https://www.google.com/search?q=bar...Q4dUDCA8&uact=5 ), which enables modelers to print decals on ordinary computer printers. To avoid the problem with white decals, the decal film is available in clear and in white. The Astrobee-D decal sheet could be scanned, and the blue portions could be color-corrected before saving and printing the file on the appropriate decal film (if any of the characters or logos are--or contain--white, the white decal film could be used). Also:
If different portions of the decor scheme (on the full-scale rocket) had white (paint) backgrounds, but other parts of the decor scheme would--on the model--call for a clear-background decal, the file could be split up into two files, one for white-background decals, and another for clear-background decals. (I would do this myself, except that my HP Photosmart 7520 printer/scanner/copier has numerous--but very small--colored ink cartridges [imagine the minuscule quantities of ink that a newspaper or magazine in Lilliput would need; it prints only a few 8-1/2" x 11" or A4 color pages--at our scale--and I found that the cheaper refilled or generic cartridges don't work].) |