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Racing Buggy Decals - At Last !!!

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netsmithUK

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Anyone who has been following this will know these have been a long time coming. But after hours of work they are finally in my hand and up for sale.

What can I say... these are the best repro racing buggy decals I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong, if you had them along side the originals you would be able to tell some minor differences (on some of the decals at least )

Here are the details

- These are not produced by printing scans. I have re-artworked every single decal into vector graphics - which means all the edges are sharp and the colours solid.

- They are printed on the thinest transparent sticky stuff I could find at any printers.

- they are professionally printed at a proper printers, not ran off a home computer

- all of the decals are first printed in white , then over printed with the colours and black. Basically this means all the colours are fantastic and the stickers are very opaque.

- The sheet contains 99% of the decals from the standard 'a' and 'b' sheets. All that is missing is the 'mexico' decal (only one to use green so it would have pushed the price up), the Tamiya logo (for legal reasons) and the red and blue slopy squares, which I just ran out of space for.

- The decals have been laid out so I could fit them all on one A4 sheet for easier posting

- They are not perfect. The artwork I produced is but the output device 'filled in' some of the smaller white type.

And the main thing - How much?

To club members they are £15.00 a sheet plus p&p. If you are not completely impressed and over the moon - you can return them and i will return your money (less paypal fees and postage)

Thats enough talk - just take a look at the pictures...

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If you want a set contact me through my details page or send me an email. Any questions post them here.

The first run was limited but if there is enough interest I can have some more produced.

Cheers

Chris

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Now your talking !

Just no trevor and sharon banners! lol

It will be small lettering to fit on the bottom of number plates next...... or even small tax discs.. mmmmmmmm :)

Jimbo Community Regular

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From memory, that software as not cheap, around £350 ish I think??

Jimbo

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And then I woke up! and it was all a dreamicon_smile_sad.gif

netsmithUK

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You are right its not cheap. But getting hold of it is the easy part. It takes ages to learn to use it right. I've been using it off and on for 15 years and I still taught myself a few new tricks while putting these decals together.

Have a go though there are more decals than I will ever get around to converting so the more doing it the better.

Cheers

Chris

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retro Enthusiast

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I've never used Illustrator, as Jimbo said, a little pricey. I played about with CoreDraw years ago (back in windows 3.1 days - it crashed a lot I seem to remember. I might have a copy of Freehand somewhere that would probably do it. Like Cris said though, it aint easy.

Chris - what format did the printers want, postscript? I assume they need colour separations right?

Maybe you could put up a few pointers in the 'hints and tips' section to encourage others to try it.

Gary

netsmithUK

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Most printers these days like it if you take them Native Iluustrator or Freehand files - they all tend to work differently so trying to work out any lower lever like postscript yourself is probably going to cause them more work in the long run.(and so bump the price up)

I created the file with 5 layers, one for each of the colours (inc black and white)

Make sure the white layer is a silohette of the complete decal, then put down each of the seperate colours - none of the colours should overlap except with the white - you can get away with putting black over other colours. The reason for this is the colours are very thin and transparent so if you run them over each other you see where they over lap and get odd colours appearing.

Silohetting the whole decal in white first means that all the colours are printed onto white, which makes them stand out more and become more opaque. If you stick a yellow decal onto a red body it will look orange - print it on white first and it will look yellow.

All that said try and make the white image a couple of mm less big than what is being printed over it, otherwise you can have problems with registration and gets bits of white bleeding out the side.

Try not to depend in using outlines with strokes on them - some printers don't render them well at all. Always try and do things as shapes.

Preferable have the file printed as Spot colour. This allows you to choose your colours exactly, rather than trying to make them up out of process colours (cmyk)

Always Always make sure you convert all text to outlines before handing the file across.

Always have a proof produced, ie a one off - it will cost you more, the proof for my decals cost me £30.00 for one sheet - but saves you in the long run. Who wants 30 decals sheets that are printed wrong?

Always check it check it and check it again. As I said before your decals won't sell if they are wrong. Can't remember who i was msnning to online just before going to print, but at the last miniute I noticed I missed the 'd' of the 'daylighter' decals - D'oh! Fixed it in time though.

If this all means something to you, you probably know what you are doing already, if it doesn't then you are probably heading for a 'whole world of pain' and maybe should think about spending your time doing something else.

I don't mean to put anyone off trying but it is very costly in terms of time and money. You have to get at least 20 - 30 sheets done to get the price down to a reasonable level. You don't have to be a maths wizard to work out you are out of pocket for a good few hundred pounds to get it going. And like I said before if they are not great people wont buy them.

Hope this helps

Chris

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acprc

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Hiya Chris.....

The decals look great and i am sure they will sell. I think this is a good way for Tamiyaclub to go. The harder to get decals will be snapped up i'm sure. As for me let me know when you start thinking about another car. As for ideas, well the Ford Ranger XLT jumps to mind (only coz i need a set!!!logo_member2.gif

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yeah, Ranger decals next. There are not that many to a set really and they are so rare. At least with scorcher decals you can still buy originals now and again (even if you have to re-mortgage your house to get them). I have never seen a set of XLT decals new yet!

netsmithUK

netsmithUK

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To make it cost effective I need to produce a minimum of 20 sets - sounds like I only have three buyers so far...

register interest here.

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netsmithUK

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has anyone got a good 400 - 600dpi scan of the ford ranger decals they can email me? TIFF or BMP preferred but JPG would be OK if its not too compressed.

Chris

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Buy these sticker NOW !!!!!!!!!

Just got my set today and they look grrrrrreat !

So all you need now is a Lexan Sand Scorcher shell to stick em on and get those shelf queens hitting the dirt for some real action.

Only £15 from me for the shell only plus £2.50 postage uk or £5.00 worldwide.

Macca

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Edited by - Dazmeister on 09 Oct 2002 17:33:58

acprc

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I can confirm the same. I got my decals today. (thanks Chris) The quality is the best yet, better than the photos and they will save you a fortune. Get that Lexan or polycarbonate runner shell and make it look the biz now!!!

Thanks Chris

Adam

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put me down for a set of ranger decals, that's another one chris icon_smile_big.gif not too many to go now, hee hee.

And i'll email you sometime soon about the rare hyper 12, oh it comes with a period bag. icon_smile_wink.gif i'll dig it out and send u a pic, might be able to find a sheet of the instructions aswell.icon_smile_evil.gif

Mogsmex Contributor

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just recieved my 2 sets in the post icon_smile.gif

I'm well chuffed, Cheers Chris, if anyone's unsure about ordering a set "go for it !" there very good.........

Thanks again Chris, Now all I need is the rough rider "rmr" decals and the 110 so I can do my rr, Any plans Chris ?

Cheers Glyn.........

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