Decal/Transfer printing?

Hi,

I'm currently making a couple of models, and need somebody to print the custom decals for me. I was wondering if anyone here on GPG could print the decals for me, or knew anybody who could do it for a reasonably cheap price.

Thanks, it would help a lot if somebody could do this, as I currently do not have the money to buy a suitable printer.

Thanks,

Philip

EDIT; I forgot to put down the person who does this helpful job has to live in the UK.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2009 02:38PM by msater.

Hey Philip,

This is a tricky one. To do the really good decals you'd need an ALPS printer (I think) and they're really difficult to find as I think they went out of business a few years ago, there are usually just a few on eBay in the US that are for sale.

I had a similar problem when I converted my Renault R25 into my Hawkeye Racing rFactor car. I asked many different printers throughout the UK and they all said they didn't offer a service like that and I should try the US. I got in contact with a guy called Donald who did custom car models in America and he said he'd do them for me for free which was awesome dstadick@yahoo.com is his email if you want to ask him, it was a while ago though so I don't know if he's still doing it.

For the custom Subbuteo teams I use water-slide ink-jet paper from [www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk] . You can print onto them with a normal printer but you need a varnish spray to lock in the ink so it doesn't run when you dip the decals into water.

If you don't want your decal stickers to have backgrounds then pick the transparent decal paper, the only problem with that is it only works on light surfaces as the ink that's printed on it is semi transparent so it wont show up on something black. I use the white decal paper for most things and just try to match the printed bg with whatever im sticking it on to.

Hope that helps!
Ric

edit : If you end up ordering Barcelona off me - I could throw in a couple of blank ones along with some different sponsors if you want to try some out (e.g. AIG, Carlsberg..)

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2009 04:01PM by Enjoi.

ric beat me to it!


Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it

Enjoi Wrote:
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> I had a similar problem when I converted my
> Renault R25 into my Hawkeye Racing rFactor car.

You did that? Awesome! Pics?

(Apologies for being OT and grammatical fail)

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Hey Gary, it's been a while. Hope you're well!

Here's an old pic of it, it's missing a few aero bits which have since been stuck on.

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Ric Scott

Yeah, been a while - had to stop racing due to baby and wife happening, but i'm good. Still miss the good old HOWC days though.

That, in all honesty, is an epic model! Makes me want a Vod:Bul one

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You could make some models for the GPG SuperLeague!

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X (@ed24f1)

Lol, Ed is really doing some advertising for the GPG right now :D

Thanks for that info Ric, I'll be sure to email Donald after my birthday. mAnd thanks for the info about printers and how you do it.

Thanks!

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Enjoi schreef:
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> Hey Gary, it's been a while. Hope you're well!
>
> Here's an old pic of it, it's missing a few aero
> bits which have since been stuck on.
>
> [www.shootfirstmedia.co.uk]
> /Car_Project106.jpg


Good @#$%&, that's awesome! :D

cheers mate :D

I didn't take any close-ups so that nobody sees the many imperfections lol :P

Talking about decals, here are some premier league players from the past, with sponsors :P

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Ric Scott

nice work!

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X (@ed24f1)

thanks schueyfan, I've just received an order for the Ausralian national team so I'm on with painting them now!

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Ric Scott

sounds good, please show a pic when you have finished!

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X (@ed24f1)

hey mate, just incase you wanted to see it:

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Ric Scott

Nice work, thanks for showing!

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X (@ed24f1)

why two 5s for?

I thought the same thing, but I think one of them (2nd from the right on the bottom row) is actaully a '3'

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X (@ed24f1)