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Post by Cole Only on Mar 18, 2008 22:43:04 GMT -5
about half of what ill be running. a couple still in boxes that i havent put together, some from earlier sets and some scrap cars that dont really run but will look good parlaying in the yard.  |
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Post by Kozma Minin on Mar 19, 2008 14:00:29 GMT -5
It's good that you have enough space to do this in.
Did you use sandpaper for the roof of the red building? Good idea.
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Post by Cole Only on Mar 19, 2008 19:21:42 GMT -5
yeah, coarse sandpaper. it looks better in the photo than in reallife. plus the scale is a little off. i may find somewhere to put it later, maybe a yard office or something. i have a slick idea for shingles too, but ill tell you how it goes once i try it.
i have even more space, but 4X8 is all im willing to committ to at this point.
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Post by double on Oct 29, 2010 10:07:39 GMT -5
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Post by double on Oct 29, 2010 10:08:25 GMT -5
those random leaves on the table are drying basil... my mother has done it for years.
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Post by Cole Only on Oct 29, 2010 16:53:29 GMT -5
friggin awesome!!. great cars..that B&O switcher is real dope. that southern in the box with the auto racks looks like it has pieces on it....do share..
i just was in NYC yesterday and ate at lombardi's in little italy.. and i had fresh basil on my pizza. thumbs way uo - that sh*ts great!!
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Post by double on Oct 31, 2010 13:48:05 GMT -5
that southern RR box was a guinea pig - it's been drawn and erased so many times it looks awful. i plan on smashing it with decals though. this kerse is gonna be one of em. love these colors.  (my flick) |
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Post by Kozma Minin on Oct 31, 2010 17:06:59 GMT -5
yes, the colors are great.
You are going to replicate this in N scale, right?
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Post by Cole Only on Oct 31, 2010 19:49:20 GMT -5
what kind of decal paper do you use and what kind of printer?
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Post by double on Nov 1, 2010 0:32:38 GMT -5
Koz - this will indeed be N scale.
Cole - I'm still working on that. My printer sucks, flat out - I need one that can handle glossy paper like the decal paper I have, which I believe is Micro-Mark if i remember correctly. However... I'm currently rocking something from 2002 that will not work at all for such purposes, haha.
I'm also missing a fluid that's called "decal sealer" or something like that, which gets applied to the printed decals after printing and before use to "seal" the ink.
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Post by Cole Only on Nov 1, 2010 16:09:21 GMT -5
might be this:  i have some that i have been using for weathering and noticed recently it is for decal setting. i always thought you set it after the decal was applied but since i have never used it for its intended purpose im not real sure about that. |
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Post by Kozma Minin on Nov 1, 2010 17:18:56 GMT -5
You are both right.
The bottle pictured above is for setting the decal over raised details on the model.
This is done after decal sealer is sprayed over the printed decal graphic(s).
I'm not sure what the chemical base of the sealer is, but Testors has a starter kit which includes the paper and sealer in one set.
Yes the sealer is required, otherwise it would be like printing a text doc or image then dropping it into a bowl of water. We all know what will happen next...
edit: grammer
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Post by Kozma Minin on Nov 1, 2010 19:54:03 GMT -5
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Post by Cole Only on Nov 1, 2010 20:25:48 GMT -5
hmmm. interesting. ive been wanting to do some decal graffiti for a while now. this may be just the inspiration i need with the x-mas holiday coming up ill have about a week off from work. ill look into it in the model rr forums but off hand do you know if the decal paper works in a regular inkjet printer? AND by setting the decals OVER details, do you think thats how ppl get those perfect looking pieces on ridgy cars? seems like wraping the decal around the brace would distort the width of the piece. guess you could always use photoshop to alter the image to make it longer where you expect the brace to be. sounds like a lot of tiny tiny math involved...im getting a headache just thinking about it..
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Post by Kozma Minin on Nov 1, 2010 21:02:19 GMT -5
very good math, in fact, you're getting into Trig and Calculus your observations are accurate in concluding that if you take a picture (2D) of a train (3D) then print an image of this (2D), then apply this decal (2D) to a model train (3D). Where did that (1D) go? Yes, you would have to modify this image in an imaging app to compensate for that however, in N scale, this may not be required  |
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