[WWI] 4 color lozenge... grrrr...

[Aidrian Bridgeman-Sutton]

Aftermarket is getting hard to find...

Depending on your access to technology I woud be inclined to create
new artwork on the PC based on your on preferences for colour and
design and which matches the protoype rolls of fabric for width. You
don't need a super clever graphics program, but one which will let you
paste the repetitive patterns saves a lot of hard work

Print on clear decal paper - I suggest a laser printer rather than an
inkjet as the inks in the latter are not at all comfortable with decal
setting solutions even under mutiple coats of clear sealer.   Apply
the decals over a  pale grey in a fashion similar to the original lay
of the fabric - chordwise, diagonal or spanwise or some combination of
the three.  The use of a very pale grey undercoat rather than white
mutes the colours just slightly, whcih I think is a good thing

Aidrian

> Well, the Roden sheet for my D.VI is not even close... if it were close,
> then I would use them, but the purples are far too dark, as are the blues
> (upper surfaces); the lower surface decals are a bit closer, but still way
> off of any of the examples.
>
> So, I am curious... what do you guys do? Aftermarket?
>
> I thought of either:  1) scanning the decal sheet, and correcting each color
> myself, and then re-printing them on a clear decal sheet, or 2) scanning the
> decal sheet, making a mask with lo-tac painter's tape, and painting it by
> hand.
>
> Leaning towards #2... what do you guys think?

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