Custom dry transfers
No Identity
about how to create custom dry transfers. He didn't get a response, and
even though rec.models.scale has 9,000% more people on it than here, I
thought I'd see if any of the people on this board have any information
on this.
Thanks,
Gregory Scott
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rfranklin
wrote:
>I was over on the rec.models.scale newsgroup and read a post asking
>about how to create custom dry transfers. He didn't get a response, and
>even though rec.models.scale has 9,000% more people on it than here, I
>thought I'd see if any of the people on this board have any information
>on this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gregory Scott
>
Do they have to be -dry- transfers? I've got an Alps printer and am
going to attemt to replace the stick on decals for my PG RX-78 with
water slide decal copies.
WRF
"Nooooooo! Stop me before I build again."
No Identity
> Scale Auto Enthusiast had an article on commissioning custom dry transfer in
> very
> small quantity, and it was about 10 US$ for making a negative in half the
> size of letter sized paper, and a little more than $20 for each print.
> Try calling several local print shops, and see if they take an order in
> small quantity.
Thanks for the information-- I will have to look into this further. I think
that dry transfers would be quite nice for applying things like insignias and
other relatively simply decals.
I think the biggest advantage of dry tranfers over decals is that they require
much less time to apply. You don't have to mess with painting gloss paint,
going through the tedious operation of applying the decals correctly, and then
recoating with a matte coat in order to get the look you want.
Best,
Hiroaki Fukuda
rfranklin wrote:
Well, there are some advantages of using dry transfers, for example, it
doesn't have clear areas to be trimmed, and it's much thinner than water
slide decals. And quality of Alps made decals don't come close to dry
transfers or silk screen print decals except that Alps can print chrome and
gold foil decals.
I don't know how to make dry transfers my own, but I've ordered once, and it
came out excellent. Problem of making custom dry transfer is that it
doesn't come cheap if the art work uses many colors. On the other hand, the
price might be justifiable when the art work is using only one color. Scale
Auto Enthusiast had an article on commissioning custom dry transfer in very
small quantity, and it was about 10 US$ for making a negative in half the
size of letter sized paper, and a little more than $20 for each print.
Try calling several local print shops, and see if they take an order in
small quantity.
--
Hiroaki Fukuda
Sports and Race Car Modeling Page
http://www.din.or.jp/~hirofkd/scalemodels/index.html
rfranklin
wrote:
>
>Well, there are some advantages of using dry transfers, for example, it
>doesn't have clear areas to be trimmed, and it's much thinner than water
>slide decals. And quality of Alps made decals don't come close to dry
>transfers or silk screen print decals except that Alps can print chrome and
>gold foil decals.
>
If the right decal paper is used and you want to take the time to use
the setting and solvent solutions you can make them settle down like
paint. True there's more work involved but it's trivial compared to a
camo paint job. I guess it's all what your used to. The big thing with
the Alps ( the 1000, 1300 and 5000 anyway), is that it can do - white-
as well as colours and the foils. If you use a white under coat on
clear decal film you can get very nice colour saturation. Colours are
also infinitely variable to match your degree of weathering, if any.
>I don't know how to make dry transfers my own, but I've ordered once, and it
>came out excellent. Problem of making custom dry transfer is that it
>doesn't come cheap if the art work uses many colors. On the other hand, the
>price might be justifiable when the art work is using only one color. Scale
>Auto Enthusiast had an article on commissioning custom dry transfer in very
>small quantity, and it was about 10 US$ for making a negative in half the
>size of letter sized paper, and a little more than $20 for each print.
>Try calling several local print shops, and see if they take an order in
>small quantity.
You can get decal paper for 60 cents a sheet and if you can do your
own art work that leaves you with the cost of the ink ribbons. A 4x5
sheet of decals should cost less than 5 bucks. These decals are not
fingernail proof though. another coat of decal sol'n helps.