Boeing 247 1/72 Williams

[speedgraflex]

AC/pzl66’s so right about Krylon Silver! Also may I suggest Rub n Buff Silver? I think you might dig that as well.

[Stuart]

Just as long as she doesn't sneeze on you!

[LyleW]

Just as long as she doesn't sneeze on you!

I’m ready!

[LyleW]

Getting ever closer to calling this one done enough...meaning, I'm tired of trying to correct the several flaws around the cockpit, etc. If I keep at it, it will go south. Anyway, my version of anodized aluminum is on, and I need to do props, landing gear, exhaust pieces and fix the tail wheel. Not a big list. I thought I'd give the old girl some nice shiny decals...the kit decals started coming apart on me.



Not only did they come apart, it appears that they printed the N-number as individual digits...C'mon, who does that?



Since I had scanned in the decal sheet, I printed a set and carried on, so to speak.





Since I can't print white...I dug out the Testor's Decal bonder and sprayed the kit sheet, since I need some of those markings. We shall see. I have had dismal luck with the Micro Decal Film.

[Stikpusher]

Nice save on the decals. I’m batting about .750 using Microscale decal film over old decals. On some (theirs) it works great. On others, so so.

I do need to try my hand at printing my own decals someday...

[LyleW]

So far, so good on the Testor's spray. Nothing has come apart. The large 5 was without it and gave the first inclination of coming apart. It is off center, but I can't move it.

[BorgR3mc0]

Such a catastrophe with decals would have stopped the whole build for me. I have never printed decals. Great work Lyle! You make it sound like a minor inconvenience instead of a disaster.

[LyleW]

Borg, it really isn’t that hard, I have an HP All-in-One I use to scan them, I still would have had major problems if the Testors spray hadn’t worked on the kit sheet that was left. As, it was, still had to cut a white circle to place behind the fuselage 57. Jump in.,

[Stikpusher]

Lyle, how fancy of a scanner/printer is that HP? I am really wanting to try the decal printing thing myself. Not only for scanning and printing replacements, but for stuff like aircraft code letters and numbers.

[LyleW]

This one is old. You can get the for a 100 to 150 easy. They scan print, copy and fax. All the printer companies have them. Romberg they are ink jet and you would have to seal the decals. I found an inexpensive color Kaiser a few years ago for under 150, I think and I generally use that to print decals.

The printers I have are, that are pretty much the lower end..but not the bottom of the line.

HP 8600 AIO oggice jet
Canon All in One (AIO) I got to replace the HP and don’t much care for
Dell 1660 color laser
Samsung b/w laser from work that was free
Silhouette Portrait cutter