Tony, Good job on that diesel! I am amazed that the white line is paint. Masking that, and getting it all lined up with the cab must have been a pain. Thanks for all the work you and John are putting into these. Its much appreciated. I can't wait to see the finished product. -Curn
The trick to painting the white line....... The whole loco was painted white first. I cut a mask stripe out of vinyl paint mask on my vinyl cutter. The stripe was masked first, then mask off the top for gray, shoot paint, let dry, remove mask, mask over gray, paint red, done. The nice thing about working in Corel, I can draw the stripe in full size and then scale it down 1/160 for the loco and get .000005 precision. The biggest thing that surprised me was the lack of bleeds under all those doors and seams on the long hood.
Good news. The inks that I need to make the orange work are on the way! These should be all done by late next week. WOOOOHOOOO!!
Couldn't sleep tonight so I got around to setting up the Sierra sheet. I had to do some editing on the GP set to get it to print in the same order as the rest of the designs so they could be done on one sheet. Close up of the Diesel Decals. Are the colors right? Some of the Diesel decals had a black print on the red layer. I assumed it should have been black so I moved them around. Also had to re-arange the layers, white needs to print first for some of the color decals and also printing white over black does not yield a good white and detail is lost. Let me know if there are any final corrections before I send it off to John.
Skipgear, For the diesel sheet, the black parts on the red layer were in the wrong layer. Thank you for finding and fixing that. Corrections needed for the steam decals: I found some color photos on ebay of Sierra #38(didn't buy them). The number plate was white on the outside and red on the inside. The black circle for # 38 needs to be red and moved to the red layer. The second solid red plate for #38 should not be changed as this is also correct to use. The gold layer circle for the number plate of #11 is not perfectly centered over the black circle underneath. As far as layout goes, I'm not sure putting them all together is a good idea. Everyone who has shown interest is looking for different decals. I'm only looking for the steam decals-couple sheets. Dave N is after the GP9 decals James N is after several sheets of the steam decals, and the Daldwin shark patches. A set that includes everything is fine. More is better, right? But you might be using more ink than you need to make everyone happy. 2 sheets (6 sets each) of steam decals, and a 3rd sheet that has 2 GP9 sets for Dave N, patches for James, and maybe the rest as additional steam sets would work too and use less ink? But I'm sure its fine with everyone if you just make one mega set that has something for everyone.
Those look AWESOME!! I agree w/ separating them to save ink -- or run them as you've got them and cut the diesel decal section out, as I only want the GP9 decals. Outstanding job Can't wait to see them in person !
Everything looks great, fantastic work. I don’t mind if you want to split up the decals to save ink, makes sence but either way works for me, I’m just please to be able to get some. With the current layout how many sets can you get on each print/sheet? James
Tony and I can do the set-up whatever the consensus ends out being. BTW....the amount of ink isn't an issue to me. It's more important to have highest quality and give everybody enough decals to do all the engines that they are interested in having. If that means less sets per page, so be it. I don't want to short anybody if they want to expand their fleet in the future. Tony's almost done with the master....just a little tweaking to make things like everybody wants and we will be ready to make the run. It's nice being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
My inclination is to keep the layout as Tony made it....I think that has the most flexability for the most number of people.....just my 2 cents. That dones't mean that we cannot change things.
OK, I have made the corrections and changed the layout of the sheet. The individual sheets can be seperated easier now. Each print will have 6 Steam, 3 GP9 and 1 patch set on it. I rearanged the Diesel sheet to make it fit better with the space left on the sheet and get 3 on each sheet instead of just 2. Here is the updated Steam sheet: How many of each sheet do people want? GP9 - Dave N, James Costello Steam - Curn X ?, James N x ? Patch - James N
Ah.......this is late in the game.....but I was thinking....we might want to make the two color roundels (like the red/gold, black gold, and white/gold) two decals that the modeler super-imposes physically on the model, rather than them being joined on the decal sheet. Would pulling these apart be easy Tony? This suggestion is a based on the technical requirements of the gold foil. I think that the effort would be worth the end result.
Those decal sheets look GREAT, that will certainly help some painted but unlettered locos I have. I would love 2 complete sets (steam + diesel). Let me know what else you need to make this happen. Your hard work is excellent and well appreciated. I look forward to hearing more. Graham
Custom inks arrived last night. Skipgear is making the layout tweaks in the next day or so. Presumably I can do a proof in the next day or two, and if everything looks good, we should be able to do the production run later in the week or this weekend at the outside.
