Decal JPGs

stanmart · September 27, 2005

http://www.vintagercweb.com/decals.html

I found a site with decal pictures on it.

Only one problem is there the wrong size and print really small. Anybody know the excact mesurements on the decal sheets? If someone has a decal sheet please measure it and post. I will resise them in Photoshop for printing on testors decal paper.

DJTheo · September 28, 2005

Resizing small pics will make them only unsharp or pixelised as you can't recover lost detail info, except if you plan to vectorize the images, but even there a big scan is better for higher accuracy.

Cheers

stanmart · September 28, 2005

When i look at them in photoshop there the right size. But when i print them there too small. There really high resolution. Im thinking if i get the right dimensions and then bring the resolution down they will still be alright. I emailed the guy that scanned them. Maybe he will get back to me.

tbone · September 28, 2005

I think I looked at these once from the site. And the guy has some intention of selling them once he gets it all set up. I highly doubt that he would be willing to give you the templates but it never hurts to try.

On another note would it not be illegal to make copies of the original decals and have them reprinted. Must be some kind of copyright infringement.

RedFrits · September 29, 2005

Why don't we at TC setup a database for all decals. It would be a great feature for TC members!?

DJTheo · September 29, 2005

quote:Originally posted by stanmart
When i look at them in photoshop there the right size. But when i print them there too small. There really high resolution. Im thinking if i get the right dimensions and then bring the resolution down they will still be alright. I emailed the guy that scanned them. Maybe he will get back to me.

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They are much to small for quality prints, less then 1000x1000 pixels, guess scanned at 72dpi, while it is recommend to scan them at 600dpi, even at 300dpi they are over 3000x3000 pixels (9Megapixels)

Cheers

Vintage-RC · September 29, 2005

Hello all,

I'm building a french web site upon Tamiya Vintage RC cars. I've done some high resolution scans of Tamiya Decals. For the moment, you can only find scans for Sand Scorcher and Sand rover but I'll add more soon.

Directs links are:

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/sand_scorcher.jpg

and

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/sand_rover.jpg

resolution is 600dpi (usefull to set the right dimensions

You can also have a look to the whole site it's free!! www.vintage-rc.net

Thank for reading

Julien

DJTheo · September 29, 2005

Nice effort [^], stanmart now you can see the sizes I am talking about above.

Cheers

RedFrits · September 29, 2005

quote:Originally posted by Vintage-RC
Hello all,

I'm building a french web site upon Tamiya Vintage RC cars. I've done some high resolution scans of Tamiya Decals. For the moment, you can only find scans for Sand Scorcher and Sand rover but I'll add more soon.

Directs links are:

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/sand_scorcher.jpg

and

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/sand_rover.jpg

resolution is 600dpi (usefull to set the right dimensions

You can also have a look to the whole site it's free!! www.vintage-rc.net

Thank for reading

Julien

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Julien,

I do not have much but have the Peugeot 406 decals scanned. Maybe something for your collection?

Vintage-RC · September 29, 2005

RedFrits,

Thanks for your offer, I'll be very happy to add your scan to my site!!!

You can send me the jpg using this adress postmaster@vintage-rc.net

I'll give you the direct link of course :-)

Thanks in advance

Julien

Dephcon5 · September 29, 2005

Testors makes decal paper???

Stefan(2) · September 29, 2005

Vintage-Rc , feel free to download & repost these decals

on your site

http://stefan666.25cm.nl/

Stefan

Vintage-RC · September 29, 2005

Stefan, thanks a lot for the scans, I'll add them soon to my site!!

Julien

stanmart · September 30, 2005

Awesome! If you guys get some monster beetle decals scanned please let me know.

And yes Testors makes decal paper. only problem is printing white. Regular printers dont recognize white as a color. Because paper is white it just assumes your printing on that.

Im wanting to get a new style vw body and outfit it with original decals.

Vintage-RC · September 30, 2005

quote:Originally posted by stanmart
Awesome! If you guys get some monster beetle decals scanned please let me know.

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I've got Monster Beetle scan in 300dpi [:I]

It's not perfect in the middle but you can certainely use it []

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/58060_MonsterBeetle.jpg

DeeMiller · September 30, 2005

quote:Originally posted by tbone
On another note would it not be illegal to make copies of the original decals and have them reprinted. Must be some kind of copyright infringement.

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Well, Tamiya lost the copyrights of some (old) companies too, so this will be complicated then...

If it's for your own needs, no problem here.

But when you want to make money out of it, you can/may get into trouble, but I doubt that...

Here's a laserprint on vinyl for my WW1

Because it only prints black, I had to redo the helmet and color it afterwards.

Grtz Dee

RedFrits · September 30, 2005

quote:Originally posted by Vintage-RC
RedFrits,

Thanks for your offer, I'll be very happy to add your scan to my site!!!

You can send me the jpg using this adress postmaster@vintage-rc.net

I'll give you the direct link of course :-)

Thanks in advance

Julien

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Julien,

I can't scan the decals in once. I have to split each sheet up in two parts due to the length of these sheets. Each file will be apx. 26MB!!!

Still interested?![?]

Vintage-RC · September 30, 2005

quote:Originally posted by RedFrits
Julien,

I can't scan the decals in once. I have to split each sheet up in two parts due to the length of these sheets. Each file will be apx. 26MB!!!

Still interested?![?]

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Hello,

Yes I'm still interested but file size seems amazing [xx(] Can you save scans as jpg files with 75 compression ratio, size should be a lot smaller []

stanmart · October 5, 2005

quote:Originally posted by Vintage-RC
quote:Originally posted by stanmart
Awesome! If you guys get some monster beetle decals scanned please let me know.

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I've got Monster Beetle scan in 300dpi [:I]

It's not perfect in the middle but you can certainely use it []

http://www.vintage-rc.net/scans/58060_MonsterBeetle.jpg

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Thanks! I can probably make corrections in photoshop to get rid of the bump in it.

stanmart · October 5, 2005

I fixed the image in photoshop. Its nearly undetectable that it was modified. Should look good in a print. No bump now. I can email it to whoever wants it.

email me stanonbass@cfl.rr.com

Its high quality so i couldnt upload it to putfile. If anyone wants to host this let me know.

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