Decals, part 1
The decal sheet is small but interesting. And if you've ever been curious about
Ghost Toner here's your chance to see it in action. These are laser-printed on clear decal paper, with Ghost Toner used for the white parts:
The big decal is up first. It mounts on top and wraps around the sides:
It turned out to be straightforward. The decal paper is very well-behaved, easy to work with. Normally I like to trim decals as close to the design as possible, but with that one there was only so much I could do.
Then I put the side, um, "logo" on. After double-checking the instructions about a hundred times to check orientation, I *still* put it on upside down:
Fortunately, no one will know the difference in this case.
The stripes decals was a bit more challenging, mainly in getting both straight and conforming to the contours of the body tube. Micro-sol will hopefully convince the decal to lay down into the inside corner.
And finally, here is the completed top side of the rocket, just before Micro-sol was applied to everything:
As I have noted in the past regarding laser decals, the black areas don't match up well with gloss paint because they are very matte. You can see this clear at the seam between the large decal and the black paint behind it. This can
mostly remedied with a sufficient amount of gloss coat applied to the decal. There is a lot of Future in my future. We'll see how it looks when it's done.
Done for the night.