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Old 02-05-2010, 12:54 PM
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Default Not a good idea...

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Once I'll cut the decals, I'll paint in white rough numbers or stripe directly on the fig, then stick the decal on. It should do the job

I almost ruined one of the figs

I tried that decal technic, and it gave poor results. The decals are transparent, so the color parts of it appears too dark (tone on tone), and the transparent parts are just not good enough.

SO I fixed the figure paint, remover everything except the helmets decals. Modelling is all about that type of problems : take hours to do something, then ruin it in a couple of minutes


SO... I'll finish the figures like a warrior, painting free hand

To be more specific, I'll use the same technic I use on my Niners : peel and stick stickers, modified to be integrated in the paint job, making them almost invisible.

To make the thing more fun, I'll add a red outline on the jersey numbers with free hand painting. But I will not add names on the jersey, my preview tries are not good enough, and I want to keep the figures with the best result I can.


To be continued... here's a little pic of the only good decals work I did this evening :



EDIT : When the things goes wrong... I realized that I sticked the decals in the wrong direction I' ll do it again.
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Last edited by the french guy : 02-05-2010 at 01:31 PM.
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