Making Waterslide Decals

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NZKevin

Discussion Starter · Sep 3, 2021

I bought some waterslide decals recently, and they were complete rubbish. Four of the sheets were really badly printed, the last time I saw colour printing so bad it was done on a 9 pin dot matrix. One sheet was a little better, so I tried to use it only to discover that the printing floated off the decal along with the backing paper and they look terrible on the car. These were from scalextric-car. co.uk just to be clear, I have previously bought transfers from PSR and they were great quality.

I decided that I may as well make my own, but couldn't seem to find much information here about it. Has anyone done it, and if so do you have any tips you can share? I have found some paper available locally and checked the instructions, I'm using an inkjet so will need to spray them with a clear topcoat. But I'm sure there are probably some do's and don'ts that I should know. Any tips gratefully received.

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EMPO_Z102

· #5 · Sep 3, 2021

Hice este tutorial en otro foro, que tal vez te sea útil (AQUI).

I did this tutorial in another forum, which may be useful to you (HERE).

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EMPO_Z102

· #13 · Sep 4, 2021

Yo vectorizo casi todos mis logos, pues mis decoraciones suelen raras y no encuentro los patrocinadores en internet. Dibujo lo que veo, pero no entiendo de capas, ni de resoluciones entre objetos, ni de colores. También a veces modifico el logo que he encontrado en la red porque no se ajusta a la realidad.
En cuanto a las tipografías busco la más parecida y la modifico de acuerdo al coche original. Por ejemplo, el logo BRM-Marlboro del P160, lleva tres tipografías diferentes.
Una vez tengo los logos, ya todo queda muy lejos para mi. Siempre con muchas dudas exporto a .pdf y luego busco alguien que me los imprima.

I vectorize almost all my logos, because my decorations are usually rare and I can't find the sponsors on the internet. I draw what I see, but I don't understand layers, or resolutions between objects, or colors. I also sometimes modify the logo that I have found on the net because it does not conform to reality.

As for the fonts I look for the most similar and I modify it according to the original car. For example, the BRM-Marlboro logo on the P160 has three different fonts.

Once I have the logos, everything is far away for me. Always with many doubts I export to .pdf and then I look for someone to print them for me.

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EMPO_Z102

· #18 · Sep 4, 2021

beardy56 said:
Frederic, would you not be better of printing from the vector graphics program. I don't use pdf as I am never sure that I am getting the maximum possible resolution. I can save from my graphics program to PDF at 1200dpi but i do not see any advantage in doing another conversion to the graphics. If I was working from scratch I think I would also use vector graphics as they are so easy to resize but would not do any conversions before printing.

Aixó de que hi haguin dos temes que parlin del mateix... T'he fet alguna pregunta a l'altre.
El pronblema es que no tinc impressora i allá on me les puguin imprimir (amics) no tenen el prgrama instalat. A mes, es que sempre m'habien dit que ho fes amb .pdf.
Salut

That there are two topics that talk about the same thing ... I asked you a question to the other.
The problem is that I don't have a printer and where they can print them for me (friends) they don't have the program installed. Besides, I've always been told to do it with .pdf.
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EMPO_Z102

· #25 · Sep 6, 2021

Dave D Stevens said:
We used to make our own decals as kids. back in the 60's.
We would find the image that we wanted in a "glossy" magazine, Then.../...

Supongo que muchos hemos hecho algo parecido. Alguna vez pegaba directamente el sponsor en papel al coche o utilizaba cinta aislante de diferentes colores. Pero cuando no encontraba un logo o el tamaño no era el adecuado, lo pintaba.
Al final pintaba todos los logos del coche a pincel. Aprovechando que he subido esta imagen en el tema del 126 C2, así quedaba un coche decorado a "mano alzada".

I guess many of us have done something similar. Sometimes I directly glued the sponsor on paper to the car or used insulating tape of different colors. But when he couldn't find a logo or the size wasn't right, he painted it.

In the end I painted all the car logos with a brush. Taking advantage of the fact that I have uploaded this image on the theme of the 126 C2, so it was a car decorated "freehand".

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