Thanks Mountain Man & Bill.
Bill I used dry transfers, the only problem was I had to buy three packs to get enough G's.
With the Heisler I'm also thinking about going with yellow so I can salvage the number on the front boiler plate that the factory put on. My last experience with making decals was a disaster because of the gloss decal paper I used on the MVL&M project. I will be replacing them using the dull finish decal paper.
I just got my order in from Walthers, and in it was two packets of 8.5 X 11 matte clear decal sheets, so the adventure begins! I am familliar with the ritual of coming up short on a critical letter with the dry transfers. I allways ran out of C s first, and naturally, that was the letter that did not transfer correctly more often than not. I think it has been 35 years since I have played with decals. I think the last time I did that, I used a gold alphabetic set . I beleve, to spell out Dead Grass, Crooked Creek, & Western on the side of the tender of #21, my first Little River 2-4-4-2. I had # 21, and the name J. H. Morgan on the side of the cab. years ago something got spilled on the locomotive that messed up the paint on the cab, and I had to repaint the cab, and it has yet to get the # and name replaced. Thanks be to God, whatever it was didn't affect the tender
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate raider, who made a visit north of Cincinnati Oh, Going right through the village I lived in up there, so as a Mississippi boy, that was just too much fun, and a nice did at mt Ohio friends. My Other 2-4-4-2 will be mamed D M Murray, after one of my train buddies who has passed away. David Murray, who was our Episcopal Priest here in Clarksville , was fond of telling folks that God is a model railroader. when questioned about this he would say " Read your Issiah, It says right there plain as day, AND HIS TRAIN FILLED THE ENTIRE TEMPLE!"
so I have a lot to do, but it will take a lot of planning. a boatload of HO decals will fit on an 8.5 X 11 sheet, so I will have to figure out what decals I need, guess at the font, and the size, make up a page on the computer, print it out on paper, so I can cut out samples and test them on cars and locomotives, and then adjust them as I need to before printing up a whole page full.
The biggest challenge will come with Parrot Oil Decals. I have been hand painting Parrot Oil signs for 25 years or more. I will need to paint a definitive Parrot oil sign on canvass or Masonite, photograph it. and use the resulting file to make decals for Parrot Oil tank cars, trucks, Gas stations, bill boards and Whatever. We already have one Parrot oil tank car @ the club. In my latest order I got a Plastistruct Horizontal tank kit, to make Tanks for a Parrot oil distributor @ the club, to extend the franchise off of the DG CC & W. This means I need more tank cars!
Thanks for sharing your stuff, we all need all of the encouragement we can get, both to bet busy and build something, and to push the envelope, and do a little better each time.
Bill Nelson
I'll be posting some up dates here shortly. Thanks!
