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I have a set of Kline Heavyweight Passenger cars that had the Railroad Name and car names removed. I desire to re-label them with water slide decals that I would create using an ink-jet printer. Has anyone done this? I would probably have to use an acrylic clear coat (spray on) over the decal to insure adhesion.
Any ideas?, suggestions? The RR Name I am looking for is Union Pacific in a light grey lettering.
bruce
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Pretty routine. Gloss surface to apply decals, apply, seal, and move on...
The most important step is to make sure the the surface you apply it to is glossy. If necessary, spray it with Testors Glosscote and let it dry, then apply decal. Consider practicing on a junk car.
Here is a good tutorial.
Here is another. Scroll about half way down.
There are YouTube videos as well.
Bob
Your light gray lettering will not likely show up, especially if using an inkjet printer, and more than likely if you're applying to a dark body side panel. That ink will not be dark enough to work...
What Jeff said.
I have an Epson Workforce 500 printer and can change the settings so more ink is applied to make it more opaque, but it's trial and error most of the time. I tried to make some Dulux Gold decals and just couldn't get them opaque enough.
The big problem (I'm doing some Champ decals now) I have with O scale decals is getting all the air bubbles out, due to the decals being large. I've used a pin to get the air to escape and applied Solv-A-Set and Micro-Sol about 3 times and they're still there.
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