[R-390] Dry Transfer Decals Better News

[Bill]

Make your own decals. I made one for an SP-600.

You make what you want using some program and then simply print it out on
your Inkjet Printer on their paper. Or you can do as I did and photograph
the item before stripping it and then convert it and print it out on their
decal paper. It wont work for everything but it worked for me.
http://www.modeldecal.com/
http://www.modeldecal.com/contact.html

There are other companies but I used this one.

  Bill Marx W2CQ




On 3/22/2013 1:26 PM, barry williams wrote:
> Lester,
>
> Yes, someone does but I forget who. There were some details about a 
> silkscreen that was shot just for the front panel a few years back. 
> Rick Mish??? It probably was him. I remember that it was a well done 
> screen that looked good when printed according to a few people on the 
> list.
>
>
>> Does anyone have a high quality scan or typeset image of an R-390 and 
>> 390A
>> front panel
>>
>>
>> Lester B Veenstra Lester,
>>
> Sorry Bob, but unless you are really REALLY good, it will look really 
> REALLY bad. These are the pressure sensitive types that you are 
> talking about. The biggest makers used to be Chartpak and Letraset. 
> They are also called dry transfer letters. I used to work as a 
> commercial artist in Atlanta back in the 70's, and we had hundreds of 
> fonts and sizes on hand in file boxes. This was before home computers 
> so everything was done by hand. We had all kinds of primitive methods 
> back then for getting type on to whatever we were selling.
>
> Laying down that small of letter, one by one, aligned just right, etc 
> will be impossible. Alignment and spacing will drive you nuts. Then, 
> things begin to look different after you stand back and look at it 
> from different points. I used to work hunched over art tables all day 
> long doing that and I wouldn't try it on a panel myself. However, if 
> you want to prove me wrong, do a search and you will find ample supply 
> of sheets that you will need.
>
> By the way, these aren't fragile. They last a long time just sitting 
> around. I have a small booklet of electrical symbols and electronic 
> words already laid out on small sheets. I've had it for about 25 years 
> and it has been tossed in boxes for the attics or basements along the 
> years. Still looks fine. No need for the worry beads.
>
>
> the other other Barry
>
> p.s. if it were me, I would make a rubbing of a front panel. That's 
> laying a sheet of paper over the panel and rubbing with graphite to 
> get the outlines of the letter spacing, alignment, placement, etc. 
> Maybe a good computer guy could scan that sheet and send a cleaned up 
> file out to a vinyl cutter that would do a whole sheet for you. That 
> would look second best to a silkscreened job. Just transfer the whole 
> sheet in one piece.
>
>
>
>> I found them in my searches earlier.
>>
>> Since I don't have a laser printer or copier, I just wrote that off 
>> my list.
>>
>> I've decided that one thing I *WILL* do, is to take an original R-390A
>> silkscreened panel that has extensive wear, strip it down, prime it, 
>> bake
>> it, the hit it with the closest gray to what the panel was, and apply 
>> the
>> markings with one of the sets of the letters/words I have.
>> Then shoot it with clear satin enamel, bake it again.
>>
>> Then I will always have a spare!
>>
>> Bob - N0DGN
>>
>>
>
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