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A CR Dia 26 coach part 2


This is the coach made up with the internals added. Not terribly sophisticated, I just print my own on matte photo paper , cut them out and stick in place. More passengers can be added later.

 

 

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The coach sides on the flat to make painting, lining and glazing easier. The white panels are home made transfers doubled up to make them more opaque. Not as good as an expert painter would manage, but I’m not one.

 

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The magnetic sides just click neatly into place. Looks reasonable on the layout I think.

 

 

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Overall I enjoyed that so some more will be built in the future.

 

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Citadel

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Sensational.  Some CR liveried coaches are definitely on my to do list.
 

The inset white panels via transfers look fabulous, what a great idea.  Is the lining incorporated in the transfer or did you do this afterwards with a pen?  In terms of the printing was this home inkjet or something more exotic?  And was it white decal media meaning you needed to cut the panels by hand. Currently grappling with how I might line a MR Pullman Drawing Car and need all the help and inspiration I can get 🙂

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Dave John

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Hi Citadel. The panels are  printed onto white transfer paper ( Mr Decal Paper brand ) with a home inkjet printer. In my case that is an epson ET-2650 which uses the liquid ink tanks. I do have to cut the panels by hand, a small sharp pair of nail scissors seems to work. I print plenty of spares, many are lost in the cutting out process. The lettered panels are the same, so for a door I would apply a plain panel with a lettered panel over the top. You need to be quick applying them , the gold does bleed out a bit. 

 

The panels are created in Affinity, but I guess any good drawing package would do. Affinity creates big files, the original whole sheet is 207 MB. Anyway, here is a lower res sample as an idea. 

 

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Mikkel

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Lovely.

 

If my current lining efforts fail your method is next on the list. Having the lettering pre-printed inside the lined panels is also an advantage. I'm currently using HMRS transfers and they are a tad large, which makes lining extra tricky.

 

The cutting out seems to be the tricky bit. I assume that a professional custom transfer maker would be able to make transfers that avoid it. But I like the idea that it is all DIY.

 

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MikeOxon

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On 29/10/2024 at 06:00, Mikkel said:

The cutting out seems to be the tricky bit. I assume that a professional custom transfer maker would be able to make transfers that avoid it. But I like the idea that it is all DIY.

This where the Silhouette cutter, with its ability to align the cutting plan to a printed sheet, comes to the fore.  I have made several transfers in this way and also made pre-printed adhesive vinyl panels

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Mikkel

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Ah, good point Mike. I had forgotten. Food for thought!

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Dave John

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I will have another look at the silhouette. 

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Simond

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Useful things, Silhouettes.

 

The late Grahame, BGMan, kindly cut some lettering for me using his Silhouette, I sprayed some transfer film yellow with a non-water-soluble paint, and popped it in the post, and gave him the artwork by email - he posted me back loads of narrow Gs and Ws to fit my breakdown vans.

 

atb

Simon

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Dave John

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That is a good idea for larger lettering Simond. 

 

I think I would have to lay the transfers out very accurately and print a reference mark. Then create a cut pattern for the silhouette with the same reference mark. I could investigate whether the affinity files can somehow be transferred to the silhouette software. 

 

Hmm. Experiments. 

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MikeOxon

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Assuming you can save your image files in one of the standard formats, e.g. JPG, these can be imported into the 'Studio' software that drives the 'Silhouette' cutter.  You can then use the drawing tools in Studio to create the cutting diagram to align with your images.  Then select the option to add registration marks and send the image to your colour printer.  Load the printer with ink-jet printable transfer paper or use printable self adhesive vinyl and print the image with the registration marks.  You then put your printout into the 'Silhouette' cutter, which will 'read' the registration marks and make the cuts in register with your image.

 

JCL has a thread which describes the process in detail at:

 

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