Water Slide Decals are Great!!

[flyranger]

Was finally able to get these water-slide decals to work. Wanted to decorate my golden age Cleveland (pseudo) Air Racer with things I see in the photos I have accumulated over the last year or so. The decal on the tail was the logo for the 1932 Air Race in Cleveland. I added the text. The gulf oil decal and the "men with wings" I found on photos of that ere (golden age between WWI and WWII). What do you think?:D

[Twmaster]

That is really nice.

Are these decals you make with an inkjet printer?

[flyranger]

I had no luck creating anything with an ink jet printer because ink jets use a water soluble ink. Using water to slide the decal causes the ink to run. Didn't matter if I sprayed it with clear acrylic or not, the ink still ran. These were printed on decal paper using a Tektronics printer that uses wax instead of ink (it has things that look like crayons inside that melt and are sprayed onto the medium). The ink does not run.

[Twmaster]

Oh yes. The Phasor is a great printer. Too rich for my cheap blood.

Nice results though.

The printer I really want is a model from Alps that can print white.

[Bill G]

Water Slide Decals are Great!!

I guess I can agree with that statement now:
After becoming an expert at piecing torn waterslides together, turning a "would be" total loss into a perfect looking decal, where the tears are perfectly aligned and can't even be seen.