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My main aim is to post some photos of miniatures I have collected and painted but I may well post some other randomness. This is my sandpit for anything that I have an interest in. If using the transparent paper make sure the background is a suitable shade/colour for the design being put applied. If using the ‘white’ decal paper make sure the background IS ALSO white to avoid muting the effect.
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I’ve had several errors when not using a suitable background colour. Varnishing after application will seal it some more. I was very cautious about the water application and only applied it to the back paper which works and means less chance of water meeting the ink directly. Need to seal in the ink before applying water. The decal paper came with a guide which included varnishing the decal before application (I did try one ‘without’ this step (impatient) and it doesn’t work). I think the ‘tricks’ if there are any, is the sealing and background colour. Not as good as you’ll see from Little Big Man decal sheets. On close inspection the print quality is nowhere as good as photopaper or the like, but nothing too noticeable from more than 6 inches away. (Decent but not expensive inkjet printer). I laid them out in Illustrator to maximise use of decal paper and avoid wastage. Sourced art online (the bigger and higher the resolution the better). I bought some decal sheets from “Mr Decal Paper” himself (via Amazon). Not quite a detailed enough report on the use of homemade transfers/decals to justify the ‘Hobby Help’ title but if anyone wants any more info so they can give it a go themselves please just ask. It highlights, as do a couple of the others, the importance of the colour sitting behind the decal which can have a big impact on the end result. Boss by himself.Ī couple of Splintered Light 15mm Fantasy miniatures I painted up at the same time as the dwarfs – included here because I used home-made transfer decals on one of them too (the star pattern – the ‘bull’ is from a Little Big Man Studio Greek Hoplite sheet). Apart from the dwarf in the middle making an appearance, not sure why I grouped these together… Just dwarves. Centre dwarf with a homemade decal, one on right an old 40k transfer. Dwarfs on the left has a LBM medieval shield decal. General on the left has a homemade shield transfer. The banner is mostly decal/transfer aside from the purple frame. The two chaps on the right are part of another unit that needed ‘finished’. I think the difference shows and the homemade ones work for me. The four banners – the one on the left is mostly freehand apart from the hammers, the rest are decals. This particular batch of dwar-ves-fs contained no less than 4 banners so I thought it worth the effort (which was much and nowhere near what it would of taken to freehand these – if I could!). I’ll flip and flop between them because you’ll all know what I’m talking about anyway.)Īnother reason for this post was to show some rather promising results from home-made, home-printed, decals (transfers in the Queen’s language). I believe the former is Tolken’s doing and the latter is ‘correct’ if you asked the Queen. (I note that they are pluralising Dwarf in to Dwarves rather than Dwarfs. That aside, I’m posting these vertically challenged fellows to show off, once again, the superb dwarfs that can be had from Ral Partha Europe and their Demonworld range.
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Okay, maybe plenty of orcs and elves now that I come to think about it.