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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:40 am 
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Taken a bit of a punt on this working and bought some water slide transfer paper to try and print my own decals from home using an inkjet printer > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inkjet-Water-Sl ... B00835TYU6

Anyone done anything similar, any advice?

Also looking for good source images to print - guessing they would need to be vector/scalable graphics to print at different sizes and stay clear, especially if shrinking them down for 6mm or 15mm minis?

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 Post subject: Re: Decals / Transfers (Home printing)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:26 pm 
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As long as the resolution is good, you can scale Down to your heart's content; it's scaling Up that creates problems.

I'd recommend printing out on regular paper first though, to check scale; 6mm is Small ..

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 Post subject: Re: Decals / Transfers (Home printing)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:46 pm 
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I'd be interested to see what could be done with this as i'd love to be able to get custom decals.

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 Post subject: Re: Decals / Transfers (Home printing)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:12 pm 
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I'd like to hear more too. Have you considered sending stuff to one of those custom decal firms that still operates Alps printers? I am tempted to try it for a project.

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 Post subject: Re: Decals / Transfers (Home printing)
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:33 pm 
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The who you say? [looks interested]

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 Post subject: Re: Decals / Transfers (Home printing)
PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:44 pm 
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These guys (though not all of them do specials...) http://www.arcair.com/odds-and-ends/link11.shtm

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