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Messing about with decal paper

Ruston

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The Black Hawthorn, the Manning Wardle and the next couple of personal projects in the pipeline are intended to go on my yet-to-be-built late Victorian/Edwardian light railway/ mineral railway. One difficulty with fictitious industrial locations set in the times of private owner wagons is that your fictitious company can't really use RTR wagons in the liveries of real companies, so I have had a go at making my own liveries using decal paper.

 

I bought some cheap second hand Hornby wagons to test the techniques and the photo shows them with the decals freshly applied. I'll see how well they settle into the nooks and crannies of the planks and strapping and if all goes well I'll give the wagons some weathering and replace the plastic pizza cutter-flanged wheels with something a bit nicer. The wagons are in their as bought colours and all I have done is to take the original lettering off using a glass fibre pen.

 

I have also made decals for the Black Hawthorn. I was going to order some etched brass plates but I think the signwriting adds a certain something and looks the part.

 

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Looks the part, certainly. I've been wanting to experiment with decal paper for a while, am I correct in thinking you can't print white? May I ask what kind of printer you are using Dave?

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You're sort of correct about printing white. My Canon MG2150 inkjet printer can't but I think there are some inkjets that now can print white, but I don't know any more than that. There are other types of printer that can print white but they're very expensive.

 

Anyway, the experiment with the wagons had mixed results. On one I had printed and fitted the entire side as one piece - thinking that it would settle into all the raised detail, as happens with aricraft decals, but the film is much thicker and it wouldn't settle right down.

 

The other coal wagon had the pieces fitted seperately, which meant only small areas of the strapping and the drop door chains were covered as far as raised detail goes and so it didn't show as much but the only real success was with the stone wagon, where the decal was fitted only on the flat planks.

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