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Home Made Eye Decals

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Home Made Eye Decals
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 26, 2005 9:56 PM
Has anyone tried making their own eye decals?

If so, do you have any suggestions or tips?

I bought the Testors decal kit today and I've started to draw some eyes in Adobe Illustrator. I've drawn them oversize and will scale them down to 1/35".

My biggest doubt is how easy it will be to trim the small eye decal close enough to the edge to make it fit the figures eye socket.

I bought the Testors kit to make decals for another project, and if the eyes idea doesn't work I'll buy the Archers eyeball set.

Thanks

Neil
  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: Burlington, Ontario Canada
Posted by gburdon on Saturday, November 19, 2005 6:06 AM

Neil:

You could use a punch set to cut these out. If you do not have one you could punch them out using a piece of brass tubing shaped and sharpened. To cut them out use the tubing with a piece of dense rubber (hockey puck is a cheap source)

Cheers;

Gregory

P.S. Let me know how you make out

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:23 PM
Thanks for the idea, Gregory.

I still haven't got around to printing ut a sheet of eyes - I saw the Archer set and thought they looked strange. I've also moved to 1/48" armor, so I have a better excuse not to do eyes!!!
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