I need some help. I’ve been fighting with this silly little thing for like a week now and am running out of ideas. I have a 1/24 1953 scale Jaguar xk120 and I want to tweak it a bit. I found a really nice pic of a dashboard and it seems to have a woodgrain type finish to it and I’d like to repliacte that on my model. I’ve tried decals (without much success. I’ve been using the Testor’s edcal paper with the testor’s decal bonder but it is very finicky. I tried spraying on a clear coat instead of the Testor’s decal bonder and met with more sucess but I seemed to have sprayed too much on and the edcal was too thick) Anyhow, what would be a good way of going about this? The grain lines I think are too thick to scribe them in and I’ve tried painting it in to no avail and the edacl thing didn’t work much either. I know I can take the easy way out and just make the dash black but I want this car to look uber fancy and expensive. I’ve enclosed some refrence pics and any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I’m soo tired of painting/decalling, mucking it up and having to strip the paint only to muck it up again. [banghead] Thanks for any help!
That’s a oretty nice model! I’d love to see more pics of it if you’ve got any. [:)]
I’ll try to get ahold of something in a cataloug but if not what I may do is either print it out on regular paper and sand the backside to thin it out a bit or rig something up to have the inkjet print to tracing paper. (I think I’d have to tape some regular paper or something behind it so it won’t rip in the printer) Was this just one piece that you put on? How did you do the corners? Cut the pic above and below where the dashboard is so that the paper would overlap so you could get the angles or did you cut each section out and paste it on? And did you use white glue? And how did you work around the instruments? (This is turning into the 20 questions game isn’t it? [(-D]) Thanks for the ideas!
Sad thing is that I bought some Testor’s decal paper and boder so I could make my own. I’d rather not spend money on a wood grain decal when I should be able to do it on my own. Key word: should. I’ve been having major issues with the Testors decals and am ready to toss them in the garbage and buy a different brand. Not enough decal bonder and the ink disintegrates. Too much and then the decal is too thick. And the decal bonder doesn’t work half as good as a regular clear coat. I’ve done many decals and have yet to have one success with
even one. But it could be just me. I’ve read some posts where people have said that the decal paper isn’t too bad but the bonder sucks.
Spidergirl, I used rubber cement to attach. The main fascia was one piece. The side piece included the V’ shape on the side of the fascia, I just carefully bent it at the corner, then trimmed, THEN put on the main fascia piece. Then very very carefully I trimmed out the gauge holes with a fresh #11 Xacto blade. It looks better in person than it does in the pic, I was pleased with the result. The key is to use a photo with very high resolution and little if no grain.
