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Custom waterslide decals?

#6
gjbassist said:
If you have a decent printer you can make them yourself.
Testors sells a kit online or at hobby stores with the decal paper and a can of spray bonding agent.

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Bingo, I use that stuff for the decals on all of my instruments. A quick tip about that stuff is, it sticks just as well upside down, so it is much easier to apply your decal if you print it as a mirror image.

This also allows you to print an outline image and fill in the empty space with a gold or silver paint pen. You just have to print it first, spray the bonder, let it dry, then color in the image. If you fill in the gold first the bonder will lift the paint pen. If you skip the bonder the water will lift the printer ink.

Here are a few examples of some of my decals
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#7
Hopkins, those look great! Do you paint them with a specific pen? I have a gold sharpie that I would like to use with this method, but I am not sure if the gold ink will run when I place the decal in the water to transfer the image.
 
#8
Neek said:
Hopkins, those look great! Do you paint them with a specific pen? I have a gold sharpie that I would like to use with this method, but I am not sure if the gold ink will run when I place the decal in the water to transfer the image.
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You can try the gold sharpie, I'm sure it would work fine. But I used metallic gold and silver paint pens.

EDIT: I use an oil based paint pen, water based wouldn't work.
 

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