Anyone spare the special Kay part of their ICM decal sheet. I finally found my ICM kit and it’s the early #48278 kit not the #48279 kit.
I have scoured the net including eBay with no luck. I don’t need the whole sheet, just the serial/registration number and nose art.
You should just send ICM an email through their website. I needed something like that recently and they were very responsive.
I sent them a mssg also. They are 12 hours ahead of us and it’s Saturday there , i don’t expect to get a response till Sunday night sometime our time.
Hello!
Is this the decal sheet you are looking for?
I got this scan courtesy of the excellent Polish online shop:
I think you could use this scan to redraw the pattern you need and have them custom printed - this would probably be faster this way. If you like I could help you with that.
Hope this helps - good luck and have a nice day!
Paweł
If you want to go this route it is much easier to download this font …
… to print in any size and color you want - except white, of course.
No , unfortunately. It’s the next kit number, 48279.
I have that kit (48278) but want/need the decals from kit (48279).
Thats it, the decal sheet I need. I have been out of this game so long pls enlighten me as the next best step to get these printed
If Paweł is willing to make you a good high-resolution scan of that sheet, I think you’re pretty much there. I’ve printed my own decals before on decal paper with a regular printer, and it’s really not that difficult.
You can buy a package of printable decal paper for around $8 or so, and 10 sheets is practically a lifetime supply for this kind of thing. Once you have a good scan, you can size it correctly and print as many copies as you need.
The other option would still be contacting ICM directly and seeing if they’ll sell you the 48279 decal sheet, but honestly, if you can get a good scan from Paweł, printing your own would probably be cheaper and you’d have the file forever.
In fact, if you don’t have access to a printer or aren’t sure how to do any of this, I’d be happy to print them for you. As long as you cover the cost of the printing and postage, I can take care of the rest. I’d just need a good high-resolution scan of the decal sheet.
To be clear, I downoaded the above image from mojehobby.pl - they have an amazing website. What I can do for @Pj_s_thunderbolt is to redraw the markings he needs so they can be printed. I also have a decal printer I am working with that could ship the decals, but we are both located in Poland - so this has an effect on shipping cost. But I still recommend finding a professional printer instead of printing the decals on your own - this way you can overcome many problems, like printing in white. @Pj_s_thunderbolt - please message me if you would like to talk about it. Good luck with your projects and have a nice day
Paweł
it would be great just to get or have a proper scale pdf or jpeg and I can print them out and then scale up for a 1/32 build also. I have so many extra inkjet printer here I was going to dedicate one or two printers to my room for printing decals and targets…
It would not be a bad thing if when I get started building again that I scan them into a jpeg file on my desktop for future use or sharing via pm.
Pls, because of copy write do not share a printable file in open forum even though its done regularly. Share the corrected sizes and files via pm to prevent cr issues …
I’m just thinking out loud as I write this and am not saying it is or is not ok to do otherwise .
James Esq.
pm
Thank you if you do chose to share I high quality image of the decal sheet.
Just a side note when time permits me to go down to the museum I actually get to touch and work on this real bird…
I would appreciate a high quality scan in scale if possible emailed to my school email address, BishopandBishopTransportation@outlook.com..
Jpeg or pdf
Once you start printing your own decals, it’s actually pretty cool. It opens up a lot of possibilities for markings and subjects that you might otherwise pass on because the decals simply aren’t available.
I recently had to make my own decal for an aerial refueling door on my F-4, and it worked really well and solved a problem I wasn’t sure how else I was going to fix.
It really is another form of scratch-building. Once you learn how to make your own decals, you’re no longer limited to what somebody happens to put on a decal sheet. If you can design it, you can pretty much make it. The possibilities are almost endless.
Good luck with it!
I understand what you are syaing as I have a C-130J I would like to build in the near future assigned to the Cheyenne Air National Guard. Today it would be much easier to make my own decals than try to source an old print. I can easily enough find photo copies I could pull from the net and size to what’s needed and in the end much cheeper than comitioning a single print from those that freelance as decal makers.
You mentioned a C-130J — which kit are you building, and what scale? I’ve got a 1/48 C-130J in the stash that I worked pretty hard to find on eBay because I specifically wanted the Marine Corps markings. I ended up paying quite a bit for it because that particular version was pretty sought after.
The funny thing is, knowing what I know now, I probably could have bought any version of the kit for less and just made the markings myself.
It’s pretty cool that we’re at a point where, between 3D printing, cutting our own paint masks with something like a Cricut, and printing our own decals on an inkjet or laser printer, we have a whole range of options for getting exactly the markings we want. It really changes how you look at hunting down a particular boxing of a kit just for the decals.
Really all you need is a 3D print file and you can build any plane in any scale you want but there is something to be said about having a kit of styrene in a box from a maker from the other side of the world…If you are any good at using a 3D cad program you become your own limiting factor.
James Esq.
ps,
To answer you opening question it is an Italari 1/48 C-130J and I bought it because my cousin was in the Cheyenne Air National Gaurd and got out about the time they started to move from the H model and switch over to the J model including converting the older H’s over to the J.
He has since passed away so I figured when time permited I would try to build it for his daughter now that she is grown and lives on her own…
