Nigel Mansell's BAe Hawk F1...

[john i am]

Hi John, you can print decals on a regular ink-jet printer, which these days go for really cheap prices and are capable of very high resolution printing, so the basic set up costs are pretty low. As I said, there are some restrictions on what you can do because of the transparent nature of the inks, but there are work arounds for most of them. All you need besides the printer (and a computer of course) is the blank decal paper and some kind of fixative to spray over the printed sheet. The artwork can be made yourself if you have some basic knowledge, but there's a lot of downloadable decal artwork out there, such as these from MAI magazine: https://sites.google.com/site/rjcaviationart/decalarchive

Cheers Mike please forgive my ignorance on this subject.if I have this right all I need is some white decal paper and my target image but would the white decal paper not show through on letters and numbers etc in the background and if so how would one get around that aside from a lot of fiddly cutting out with a sharp knife and you mention fixative but which one. Sorry to sound if I'm coming out of the dark ages but I have only ever printed documents before and if one could learn to print own decals then thet would be amazing and lift a lot of restrictions on what can be done with a model.I have seen lots of images of ww11 racers especially mustangs but can only ever dream of trying to reproduce one of those in a model due to the markings/artwork just being able to do the basics of what you talk about would be a giant leap forward in my modelling world. I would very much like to give this ago so if you can point me in the right direction for fixative and decal paper, which one and were to purchase it will be very much appreciated cheers John

[Guest]

Another stunning masterpiece Mike.

I'm always impressed from what you can get from a simple kit.

Francesco

[Guest]

My OCD-ness doesn't want to like this, but I bloody do ! Are you going to do a red and white Senna-esque Alpha Jet for him to pass????

[BBdave]

Very nice indeed a very smart model

Dave

[Guest]

Huh, pretty cool! Especially the custom decals! I'll have to come up with my own sometime and get that printer. xD

[Guest]

That scheme is blinkin awesome tops marks

[The Migrant]

Thanks guys!

My OCD-ness doesn't want to like this, but I bloody do ! Are you going to do a red and white Senna-esque Alpha Jet for him to pass????

Actually Neil, that's a cool idea...