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Greetings,
I have some very good news. I have been working with Will Jayne who owns Gwylan Models in the UK. While he works primarily in 1:1250 he agreed to do some art work and decals for the Revell 1:700 Colombo Express. Here's his web site. Note that you wont find the decals listed yet but he's planning on printing them in a week or so.
http://www.gwylanmodels.co.uk/index.html
So here's the scoop. Hapag Lloyd these days is sharing space on their container ships with other steamship companies. Their particular group is called the Grand Alliance. This group is comprised of The Hapag Lloyd family of companies such as P&O, Nedlloyd, Nedlloyd P&O plus OOCL, and NYK Logistics. You will see other containers on these ships but in terms of distinguishable logos these are the primary boxes you will notice.
Will has organized a decal sheet consisting of 30 each of these logos. No individual Nedlloyd containers but you could easily remove the P&O marking to create that. So that's a total of 120 logos for these containers and that's certainly enough to do one ship. These are in high resolution and printed on quality decal material with blue paper backing which is key with all these little white labels. Will says he's going to sell them for UKL 8.00 each which I think is a very reasonable price. If you are interested I would ask you to reach out to Will and let him know how many you would like. Nothing in it for me except to help out somebody who was willing to help us out when nobody else would.
Will gave me permission to post his artwork. The larger image shows the quality of his artwork and the smaller shows the actual size. Tiny, eh? As you can see he's done a wonderful job.
Thanks everyone!
Dave
Wow, thanks for the heads up, Dave. I had been collecting logos to print out my own decals but it would be a lot easier to just buy them. I guess I can wait a few weeks. I am cutting the stacks to have uneven top rows, so I figure it will take a few weeks till I need the decals.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
You're welcome. I'm planning on cutting down the stacks as well. Do you have any tips you can pass along?
I've been mulling this over myself. I think the first thing I would suggest is shortening them from the bottom, so that less work is needed to be done where the joints are more visible. I was also thinking of somehow combining the shorter stacks with the "uneven" ones so that some of the seems that will come out of that are hidden, or at least made harder to see, by the taller stacks.
Tracy White Researcher@Large
weebles You're welcome. I'm planning on cutting down the stacks as well. Do you have any tips you can pass along? Dave
Not yet, On the road right now. I had just started the first altered stack before I left. It will be late in week before I get back and continue work on the stack. I used one of those photo-etched modeling saw blades to cut top and side pieces so I can use the remains without loosing much.
Many thanks for posting this link. I'm giong to be sending this lad a check in the near future, I think.
Greetings all,
Will advises that this decal set is now on sale at White Ensign Models and Freetime Hobbies. This is a welcome and much needed addition to this kit. Thanks to Will for taking the risk to put this together for us. One sheet will cover 120 containers and are appropriate to this vessel. They're very reasonably priced as well. Here's a shot of the completed set...
I hope to see these on some builds.
Yes, I just saw them at Freetime hobbies. VERY reasonable pricing! Thanks for sharing, cheers
I had some tips in a seperate CE container message a couple of days ago, and I've just posted some photos, along with some homemade decal work.
Well Don, it proves the old adage. Whenever we apply ourselves to creating something unique, some bright light comes along shortly afterwards and offers it for sale.
bondoman Well Don, it proves the old adage. Whenever we apply ourselves to creating something unique, some bright light comes along shortly afterwards and offers it for sale.
I'm not unhappy. I suspect mine were cheaper, and I ddn't restrict it to just containers in that consortium. I had a couple of photos of the CE with lots of different containers on it, so my decal sheet has about 10 or 12 different logos, And, I needed them right away, I was already painting containers.
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