RE: Paint Schemes for Full Thrust

Before you charge off and try to run decal film through the ink-jet,
think about one small thing...it doesn't work. The ink beads-up on the
decal film and wipes right off the sheet. No amount of drying time will
help. Now, that all said, there is a company that is working on a new
decal film made just for ink-jets (and color lasers for that matter). It
should be available in a few months. For now, the only way to print them
is with a dye sublimation printer (like from HP).

Win Barker
Imagineer
Solutions onQue

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> From: 	<Mark Andrew Siefert>[SMTP:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, April 08, 1997 12:33 PM
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Cc:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: Paint Schemes for Full Thrust
> 
> Hello:
>	For the most part, I tend to stay with a uniform color for the 
> ships in each of my fleets.  My NAC are light grey with red "running 
> lights" (i.e. just about any small raised surface gets a dab of
> paint.).  
> My NSL ships are dark blue.  My FSE ships usesd to be dark red with a 
> badly painted gold chevron (my first attempt at detail).  After 
> discovering that I hated that, I dunked the Frenchies in acetone and 
> repainted them medium grey.  My few Kra'Vak ships are a mix of greens,
> 
> tans, browns and reds.
>	I am not an artist,  My attempts at painting numbers or symbols 
> have always met with failure.  I plan on making my own computer
> generated 
> decals if I can get ahold of some plain decal film.  Just pop 'em into
> 
> the inkjet and there you go.	This will come in handy for my Yamto
> minis 
> and my EA minis (when I finnaly get them.)  
>	BTW, while we are one the subject, can anyone give me
> suggestions 
> on how to paint EA ships.  Not that I don't know the color scheme 
> (gray's, with some whites and blues) it just that I want to get really
> 
> detailed for this lot.  
> 
> Later,
> Mark A. Siefert
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