Hi all,
This is my first post to the decals board. I have a project well along and have always meant to do some detailing with colored strip decals, basically cheat lines on a hull, a bit like old fashioned rally-stripes on cars. I went to my huge box of decals, confidently expecting to pull out Superscale Trimfilm sheets in the right colors, and discovered my memory was playing tricks.
I checked on the web but couldn’t locate a website for Krasel Industries with a Google search – has their site been taken down???
I need black and red strip decals or solid color sheets from which I can cut stripping. Do other companies make equivalent products? Where might I look for something along these lines?
Best wishes,
In haste,
TB379
you can spray the colors over a clear decal film and make your own,i’ve done it and it worked fine
Hi Ione,
Yup, that’s always a good method, I used it just recently, but the film I had for that project was pretty old and the adhesive must have oxidized as it rally didn’t want to stick anymore. I have some newer clear film, but I can’t find it – that’s the penalty of moving house…
TB379
I would just design the strips with paint and then print them out…
Red and black lines are available from Decadry, the manufacturer of rub-on dry transfers (possibly from other manufacturers of those transfers too). Easy to apply. Cheap. I use them mostly on my airliners to make the ‘walk’ lines on the flying surfaces.
And even easier to apply if you rub the stripes down onto clear decal first, cut them out, and use as a waterslide decals. The white stripes and arrows on the side of the drop tanks of this ‘what-if’ VVIP Harrier:
were done using this method.
Aslo, in Europe at least, it’s fairly easy to find stripes of coloured decal. Fantasy Printshop, in particular, do them in a wide range of colours and widths for not much money. All the striping on this Dragon Rapide, except for the tail flash, came from this range:
Cheers,
Chris.