Is there a company out there that makes one-off runs of decal sets? There are some sets that have been produced in the past, but are no longer available. Specifically, I’m looking for a current set of markings for the 148th FW from Duluth, MN. There are 1:72 available from Caracal and they also produced 1:48 in the past. Speed hunter had them in 1:32, but not anymore.
I’ve contacted Reid Publications (SH) and they can only get runs of 500. No luck on eBay, either. I don’t think I can get away with home printing on 1:32. It’s going to look pretty bad that large.
There are outfits that will print a decal sheet as long as you create the artwork first in vector file format. They won’t touch an already designed sheet as that would be copyright infringement.
… but found quality was not good in terms of matching some colours - can see a dot pattern. They would be fine for black, white, and any standard colours.
There was a few in Europe, but one seems to have gone off the grid after a family member passed, and the other the quality was meh.
It depends on the resolution of your prinrt- most inkjet printers are pretty high res these days. A bigger problem is the res of your source graphics. When I do a google image search these days graphics I set the size as “large” so I dont waste time with lo res results.