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Getting plastics remanufactured

Spanky

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Any idea how to get a plastics set remade? I reckon getting sheet plastic cut to shape is the easy bit.
I've been thinking about how to get the decoration on. Options include:
- screenprinting
- Letraset to do the black outlines, then paint by hand
- some kind of sticker
- water slide decal

I've shown my bits of plastic to a couple of printers/signwriters and they've shrugged and declined to have anything to do with it.

Were these originally screenprinted?
 
Yeah, they were screen printed. @Cryptkeeper makes plastic protectors so might be able to make you a set of the plastics (I think the hard bit is cutting the plastic neatly, but he has access to the tools to do that as far as I know). Then decals - which are easy enough to do with a laser printer or a good ink jet (@cooldan posted some pics of decals he printed at home quite recently) then sealed with some sort of clear-coat, but if there is white on the decals that you want to replicate, then that is a bit more difficult - not impossible, but only specialist printers can print in white (I have found someone who can do it, if you need that).
 
Yep I can do the cutting for non silly money.
I draw them to scale first in cad.
I use draftsight.it's free and easy to learn.
 
The solution to printing White is simply to get clear rather than white waterslide decals to print on. Paint white before you put the printed clear decal on, and all unprinted areas will be white
 
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cooldan said:
The solution to printing White is simply to get clear rather than white waterslide decals to print on. Paint white before you put the printed clear decal on, and all unprinted areas will be white
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Or spend a lot of time in Adobe Illustrator recreating them, then locate someone who has a printer that can print in white (I'll post about that soon, it's not easy but is doable). I'd be interested to compare end product and amount of ****-ache between our two methods though, 'cos getting waterslides printed with white has been painful, but I finally do have them (photos in darkness don't help though -)
 
Here's another conundrum. I've got a Fishtales overlay which is a normal "sticker"!!! But it's massive and gonna be a slippery fish to get on exactalty especially lining up the fish scales. So ive scanned it in to my computer so I could print it on to a waterslide decal. However where it is mounted on the backing paper, any transparent areas now appear white.
Is it possible to get round this without cutting every little tiny piece out with an exacto blade!
 
Spandangler - why don't you do the old "spray lots of windex in the back of the sticker" trick. That gives you a good minute or two to slide the sticker around on the playfield and line it up just right before it sticks fast. Worked on my FT...
 
Spandangler said:
Here's another conundrum. I've got a Fishtales overlay which is a normal "sticker"!!! But it's massive and gonna be a slippery fish to get on exactalty especially lining up the fish scales. So ive scanned it in to my computer so I could print it on to a waterslide decal. However where it is mounted on the backing paper, any transparent areas now appear white.
Is it possible to get round this without cutting every little tiny piece out with an exacto blade!
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That's because you bought white water slide paper and not transparent [emoji6]
 
No Rudi it's because I've scanned the decal which is still on its backing paper which is white! But cheers :thumbs:
 
Mfresh said:
Spandangler - why don't you do the old "spray lots of windex in the back of the sticker" trick. That gives you a good minute or two to slide the sticker around on the playfield and line it up just right before it sticks fast. Worked on my FT...
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cheets Paul sounds like a great idea
 
Can you not edit the scan and change the white areas to transparent ? Or if there are white areas in your scan (other than the bits you want to remove) then put a fill colour that's not used elsewhere in your artwork and then set that colour to transparent..

Hope that makes sense
 
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