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Identification for your model/dio bases

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  • Member since
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  • From: Washington, DC
Posted by TomZ2 on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:23 AM

£20?! The economy IS much worse! I think 1985 I paid $13 for a 3x4 inch (oops 7,62x10,16cm) with engraved character & text nameplate (just $5 without the image). Going cheap in 2005, I used a kiosk vending machine: stainless rectangle, $.30@letter.


 

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  • Member since
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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, January 21, 2013 2:48 PM

Cadet Chuck

Any place that sells sports trophies can make an engraved nameplate of metal or plastic.  Not sure how costly this might be, but I think probably it would be reasonable.

I got this one done a few months ago. I think it cost about £20. I nearly had a fit, won't be doing that again.

So just check if your going down that route. 

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: Washington, DC
Posted by TomZ2 on Monday, January 21, 2013 12:28 PM

I prefer nickle. My trophy store can also etch photocopy B&W (with acid):

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  • Member since
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  • From: Longmont, Colorado
Posted by Cadet Chuck on Monday, January 21, 2013 9:48 AM

Any place that sells sports trophies can make an engraved nameplate of metal or plastic.  Not sure how costly this might be, but I think probably it would be reasonable.

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

G-J
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    July 2012
Posted by G-J on Monday, January 21, 2013 9:22 AM

Now THAT is an idea I hadn't thought of.  Sweet.  I'm going to give it a whirl.

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  • Member since
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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:01 AM

I curretnly use a small piece of wood stained the same as the base and then use dry transfer decals for the writing. But i have been looking for something better, and these ideas are great. Thanks guys.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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G-J
  • Member since
    July 2012
Posted by G-J on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:24 AM

Awesome!

Thanks for the ideas.

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  • Member since
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  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 9:13 AM

I make a brass nameplate for dio bases or ship model bases. I make a black and clear decal using injet clear decal paper.  This is applied over a piece of polished brass. It then looks like anodized and photo etched nameplate.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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  • From: ON, Canada
Posted by jgeratic on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:52 AM

If you have access to a decent paint program for the computer, you can make some nameplates.  Graphic images can be copy and pasted from internet to add more colour.  Print out on something heavier than paper, like card stock or gloss photo paper.  Trim to size and glue to the base.

On a rounded base like I have below, I needed something a bit stiffer, so a rectangle cut out from some brass sheet (had no plastic sheet on hand) and then affixed the print out to that, with a brass edge still visible.

regards,

Jack

G-J
  • Member since
    July 2012
Identification for your model/dio bases
Posted by G-J on Monday, January 14, 2013 8:18 PM

I've gone the route of staining an award plaque and using flock for grass as a base for my Jug.  My question is, what's a good method for labeling the base, i.e. the fighter squadron, fighter group, serial number, pilot, etc.?

I know I could write on the bottom of the base, as it will never be seen.  And I know I'll never forget the information, but I'm thinking of anyone else that may view the model.  Printing the info out on paper just doesn't seem right after all the work I've put in.  So, I thought I would fish for some ideas.

Thanks.

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