Model kit builders?

[Bone_Ranger]

So I've been keeping this under my hat for a bit. I built it for a review in Auto Modeler magazine. Now that issue five is available, here it is. Box stock with a little dirt and splashes of mud.

 

[superj]

Wow, looks like a real truck

 

[MaicoDoug]

Around here we have a discount store called "Ollie's", a step up from a dollar store. They do have some plastic kits. Good $$ too. Major names, not junk. Some Chuck Barris "creations" among others. I do mess around with miniature machinery, like HO size trains. Mainly RC aircraft, stuff that works. Some terrestrial 4wd trucks, buggies too.

 

[Bone_Ranger]

Hey, look! A Ranger...
...trim package F250!

 

[Bone_Ranger]

Did a "restored" version of the '70 wrecker I built last year...

And a '71 F250 Ranger XLT

And the '71 F250 Ranger got a new set of wheels and tires.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Anyone make their own decals? I want to make some TRS decals for a few diecast truck projects.

 

[Curious Hound]

Anyone make their own decals? I want to make some TRS decals for a few diecast truck projects.

I believe you can buy decal sheets to run though your printer. I know I’ve come across that years ago in model railriading.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Ya, there's clear and white. If I was going to make a TRS logo and put it on a silver truck, I'd have to print the logo on the white sheet with a silver background to try and match the silver color of the truck. Just never done it before.

 

[SenorNoob]

Why not print on clear and let the silver show thru?

 

[Jim Oaks]

Why not print on clear and let the silver show thru?

Because printers don't print white and the TRS logo has white in it.

 

[SenorNoob]

Oh.

 

[Curious Hound]

Would one of these help?

 

[Jim Oaks]

Would one of these help?
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I have a vinyl cutter. Picking out the tiny pieces of cut vinyl in the logo would be horrible. The wording would be impossible. I have used it to add The Ranger Station to a windshield on a 1/24 scale though.