The Playland Penny Arcade

[nk]

Ken, as a thought on this same topic, I used a Dove chocolate wrapper to make this squashed can, and it looks enough like a can, and we fill in the blanks when we look at it, but it is ponly approximate....do you think you could put bare metal foil or a similar product through a laser printer? Then your beer cans would look like printed metal.

[Ken Hamilton]

That's perfect, N.  Thanks for the tip.

(How can you eat Dove bars and still stay so thin..?)

[nk]

Ken, I looked around at printable foil and it may well be an option. I've seen a bunch of silver foil labels made for sending through a laser printer, and if you used a colour laser printer it could work nicely.

The dove chocolate is one those individual foil wrapped pieces that comes in a bag...oh and don't think I don't have some Bibendum bulges under the tweed...

[finescalerr]

Keep in mind that laser printers, and even photo inkjet printers, are unable to output truly continuous tone artwork. That means a look through the magnifying glass or macro lens will show a lot of dots rather than clean artwork and lettering. It will seem worse in the smaller scales but may still be objectionable in scale as large as 1:24. -- Russ

[artizen]

Stochastic printing is the name for contone tonal values when printed on paper -
http://www.mcclaffertyprinting.com/stochastic-printing.html
http://lorrainepress.blogspot.com/2011/01/stochastic-vs-conventional-screening.html

Good results if you have the equipment. All inkjet and lasers print using some form of stochastic screening but the only output control you usually get with the cheaper units is to print at very high dpi on high gloss photographic paper.

[Design-HSB]

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I think it should be possible if only one decal created in the form of abrasion.
The rubbing can then be transferred onto metal foil.
The graphic should however be re-created as vector graphics that I have in my box models also made ​​Sun.



Is almost a thread in the thread so for Ken, your work is just perfect.

[Ken Hamilton]

Finished the bed and the side panels, which are corrugated metal
sprayed to look galvanized.  Still needs a little more weathering and
bolt heads on the side slats....





The bolt-head impressions (not "holes") in the bed were made by
sharpening the tip of a 7mm mechanical pencil....





...and pressing circles into the wood. 



The circles were then painted the bolt-head color, in this case a rusty gray.
I don't have a close-up of the bed bolts, but here's a test piece:



I think it looks better than just a nail (or bolt) hole, especially in 1/25th scale.

[lab-dad]

I really like that truck!
Neat detail using the pencil.
why didnt you just use NBW's? 
Would have only taken about 56,000...........
-Mj

[Ray Dunakin]

Nice trick, I'll have to get a mechanical pencil and give that a try.

[finescalerr]

Show off. -- ssuR

[TRAINS1941]

Do you people stay up at night thinking of ways to make details???

Excellent detail.

Jerry

[eTraxx]

Do you people stay up at night thinking of ways to make details???

Excellent detail.

Jerry

@Jerry - I stay up at night THINKING about those thinking of ways to make details :/

[Bexley]

Okay, that just sounds creepy.

[TRAINS1941]

Okay, that just sounds creepy.

But it does work!!  Sometimes...

Jerry

[Ken Hamilton]

Before leaving for vacation last week I poured two Hydrocal slabs and
took them along so I could carve brick walls during the down-time:



When we got home yesterday I couldn't wait to paint the wall and do a ghost ad:



The wall's just propped in place at this point.