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were to get decals printed
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:51 AM
Hi ! I am from India. And currently building a few aircrafts in Indian airforce colors. As decals for certain planes are immpossible to find i have created them on coreldraw and would like to get decal sheets of the same. can any body help me find some one who I can email the design and get them printed.
Regards
Murli
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:00 AM
Try hannants.co.uk, they sell decal paper.....or do a decal paper search in the net, maybe USA shops are cheaper, maybe you will find this in India as well.
Depending on the printer and paper quality you can print very good decals.
You need to use a protective varnish though once printed so that the ink wont flow.
You may need both white and transparent paper for the compinations. White letters on transparent is the most difficult issue, you may have to contact proffesional printers.
You will have to cut round the individual decal as well since the varnish will create a continuum on the paper.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:10 AM
Murli,

Try this e-mail maybe he can help. He has done decal work for me in the past and is quite good.

pete@sparetimehobbies.com

Richard
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:08 AM
i do have the decal sheet from hannants but the prob is printing them i tried HP color laser printer the paper got scorched at some places and then the problem with whites

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:55 AM
try www.microscale.com I just bought one sheet for trying it out on my HP B/W laser printer so I can not give you the result. In Holland I payed 4 euro(approx $3.8) for one sheet, so be shure your design is perfect before printing it.
Good luck, Ad
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  • From: Strongsville, Ohio
Posted by gbritnell on Monday, July 19, 2004 3:38 PM
Hi Murli,
I don't think anyone answered your question the way you wanted. I just finished a model car and needed custom decals so I posted a request on the Scale Auto forum and got the name of a fellow in Manitoba, Canada. He has a website named:
www.sparetimehobbies.com His name is Pete and he did my decals from arwork that I had created in Corel 8. His work is very good. The decals are very thin and lay down quite well and the price is quite reasonable. Get in touch with him and I think you will be quite pleased.
gbritnell
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:40 PM
testor has a printer thing with you can make your own on the computer.Wal-mart has it but I don't know if wal-mart is in india.try going to www.testors.com or walmart.com what kind of jets are you building? good luck-brad
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  • From: Ireland
Posted by Spurdog on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:33 AM
Check out the Hannant's website now and again - you never know your luck.
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