Hi,
Well, I got my new Tripes in the mail, and I've repainted 5 "Little" Tripes as RNAS 10 Black Flight birds. Painted the cowlings and vertical stabs black, and overpainted "Little"s red cross and registration numbers. The PC10 color is not out of a jar, and I custom mixed it as I painted, so none of the five planes looks the same (close, but not the same. I attempted Tamiya XF64 Red Brown [one-ish drop, and XF74 Olive Drab [approx three drops]). I even touched up some spots on the wings and horizontal stabs with this 'color', and it wasn't a bad match.
I did up a graphic in CorelDRAW for the names, registration numbers and large letters for each plane (I'm redoing one of them as Collishaw's N5492 single-gunned plane). In order to get the white letters, I am attempting to use white decal sheet, and putting a PC10 box with 'white' lettering over it. However, after matching the screen and photo paper colors to closely resemble the ARES PC10 on the planes, when I print to the Testors Decal Sheet, the color and the quality of the printing goes to crap.
This is what I came up with, using a 3 mm measure for the large letters:
Again, the photo paper color is pretty close, but the Testors decal sheet is light green, or pinkish-brown, and very uneven. It is almost as if the ink is beading up, and not flowing across the decal material. I will post pictures tomorrow.
Can anyone help me with this? Could it be really old decal sheets?
Mike
PS: I used the below graphic, and printed it to get sample print colors to match up with the ARES Tripes:
When I print on my Epson Stylus Photo 1400, the color that was the closest match to the Tripes PC10 was DV5 (Field Brown), the last color on the left column. That is the RGB color I matched with the above decal. Nothing that came out of the printer on the Testors Decal Sheet came close to any of these.
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