<sigh> :thumbs_down: :thumbs_down: :sad: Well, gang, it's a bust. Actually, it works exactly as advertised. The powder is a VERY fine grind, almost like talc. Even so, the tiny bit of expansion it experiences during the heating process is enough to make it pretty much totally useless in N scale. Numbers become just a line of ink, and even a simple logo (I used the rail-and-roadname logo of the B&LE) becomes a lumpy mess. I tried resizing it and redoing it a few times for the sheer heck of it, just to figure out where it starts to work well at, and it is somewhere between S and G scales. Back to the drawing (decaling?) board. Ray EDIT: but I can make some seriously cool decals for on my T-Maxx monster truck body. :thumbs_up:
Thanks Ray , I had a feeling it would do that. I gave up and shelled out $17.50 for a sheet of ACTRR decals from this guy in G Scale. He does nice work. http://gold.mylargescale.com/StanCedarleaf/WebPageDecals/CustomDecalsx.html Thanks Ray , Mike
Ray, sorry about your results, but appreciate your efforts. I'm glad you opened this thread, I learned alot more about Epson C- and R- series printers....Thanks :thumbs_up:
Almost there Close but not good enough. I know the problem with the color match. I scanned the car without the decal. It was an undecorated that was painted in raw sienna. I then used Corel Paint Shop to do the following of the scanned car. I cloned part of the car and then painted it on a scrap of virtual space. It gave me the RGB breakdown of the color as scanned. I then used Testor's White Decal Paper, made the lettering in white (which will not print) and the background for the decal in the same RGB formula. The slight difference in color is due to the car orginally being black and then painted and the decal being white and then the same RGB will be slightly off. I believe that if the car is primed white, it will be a perfect match since the RGB on the decal lightened it a bit.
Nice job! I realize you say you are having a problem with matching the background color, but it sure doesn't show in the photo. I would never have considered using Photoshop to define the RGB balance. Thanks for the heads up. BTW, where are the match lines? Edit: I found them, but they aren't obvious being so close to the lettering margins. Actually the off-color background looks normal for an area that may have been masked off during a car repair and repaint, especially where the repair crew didn't have the correct stencils. I suggest leaving them as a conversation starter.
One other thing that I forgot to state in the haste to post. There will be a very fine white line around the decal edges. Very little matching paint applied with the white Micro Brush applicator will blend it in.
