A small step for mankind

[MajorTom2004]

but one giant leap for me.

Today I applied the first self designed and printed decals to my current project:





Still not perfect in quality and size, but for the first run, I am quite happy with the result.
I have used at least a million hours of experiments and a minimum of 8 sheets of decal paper with
- different printing (Canon Pixma MX895 InkJet, HP Deskjet 990Cxi InkJet and Oki 321d Laser)
- different decal sheets
- different sealings with Future, Tamiya X-22, Gunze Mr. Metal Primer, Microsale Liquid decal film, etc.
to find out what really works for me.

And the next project is in the queue:



Easy to find out, but I'm looking forward to it!
Not easy to pimp, but I got the resin set from Paragon. lucky dog

[Lysus]

These look great. I've dabbled a little with home made decals and my results were...well adequate the second time. I didn't put in nearly as much work as you did, though, and it shows

Just remember that while you might see every tiny issue, others (like me) won't! Forgive my ignorance, just what jet is that, anyway?

[MajorTom2004]

It is the NASA S-3 Viking, the next project is the NASA OV-10A Bronco.
And there is some more in the white livery to wait

[d6mst0]

Those decals look great to me, both on and off the model.

[MajorTom2004]

Thanks for the comments.

On my reference pictures I just saw that the hatched step marker is slightly too long at the end, I think I can fix that.
For the Viking, I use a decal sheet which I bought from Draw Decal, unfortunately the sheet is not complete. And the blue stripes on my printed sheet are for the Bronco, nothing available to buy. I designed them in Photoshop, no rocket science but a bit time consuming

[InitialProduction1]

Those look amazing, really adds a lot if detail, to kits, wish someone would come out with different colored decals for U.S. armor, all I ever see is white or yellow.anyway like I said amazing work.

[pir8hntr]

Very impressive amount of research put into this project and the results show it. Very good work.