01-04-2012, 08:23 PM
sailormatlac Wrote:....The dry-transfer technic is quite interesting. Is there a reason why you just don't burnish the dry transfer instead of using it as a masking device?
Yeah, not burnishing the letters make them easier to lift off. The reason that I didn't use them as dry transfers is because they were black and I wanted white lettering on a black background. White dry transfers aren't all that common nowadays, other than those made specifically for modellers. The local hobby shops still have C-D-S lettering for many freight cars, but if you want alphabets, the white ones have all been bought up. At one time, Letraset's catalogue offered an unbelieveable range of sizes, fonts, and colours, many suitable for model railroading, but computer printing has put an end to that. Most of my steam locos have been lettered the same way, too, as red letters don't show up all that well on a black tender.
Wayne