Richard, A very well thought out message indeed. However, you missed screen printing of decals. This process, once a mainstream method for waterslide decals, still has some users. And, with advancemen

Elmar’s will definitely help getting the decals to stick (another problem with these new laser printed decals) but I’m not certain if they will help with the “settling down.” But if you have the decal

Denny, That's too bad. I did have some slowness about a year and a half but now it takes maybe 5 - 7 minutes. And, they have changed the method used so it maybe faster but, being a stubborn German, IK

Bob and group. Just click “Reply to sender” at the bottom of the post. I can send pdf’s of the article to anyone that really wants them but I don’t understand why? The MRH is a free download to anyone

Which points up a minor problem. Using tif for photos in a group is a waste of the available space and really serves no real purpose. For keeping on one's own hard drive, tif's are an good choice as i

Garth, I like to use TIFF for any high res, high detail photos that I may need for modeling or for patterns for decal artwork. For everything else, and for most anything I transmit electronically I us

Tim, The albums are listed by first number if the title stars with one and after that alphabetically making it pretty easy to find. I found this album on page 7. John Hagen

Re: Borden's Milk Tank Decals The problem here is between the prototype photo and the F&C photo there may be enough data available to make a somewhat complete set. Any other information would be appre

I enlarged the brake wheel area, fiddled with brightness/contrast and ended up with this. I am also of the opinion the long object above the brake shaft is some sort of tool, possibly a broom handle?

Charlie, Good luck on that one. So far I have two different commercial RR Roman fonts plus two more fonts that I drew up in order to be able match various different prototype fonts. So now I can just

Group, Just checked and I have absolutely no problem viewing photos on this group. Either in Photostream or Album mode. If you happen to be looking for photos as attachments, they are not allowed in S

So we can assume the guys on the dock are all doctors? John Hagen

If you have artwork, try Jim Abbott at www.highballgraphics.com or Don at www.tichytraingroup.com Or, with or without artwork you can email me at obs.cals@... (see below). John Hagen OBS-CAL

First of all, while the shape of the rivet depends on the shape of the raw rivet, they way it is hammered down will affect it. Decal rivets by Archer are much better shaped than the Micro Mark ones, w

Craig, I can reproduce them without the artwork. BUT they MUST be out of production by the original printer or anyone else. If you want I can draw all new, scalable vector artwork using one of the set

Dave North, You need to apply a layer of V Photo Primer between the white layers if you’re using a MD-5000 or MD-5500. If you have a MD-1000 or 1300 you should use a pass of finish between layers. And

Dennis, Ray Breyer and group. The problem is not being able to print white. There are several ways to do that nowadays. No, not with your off-the-shelf $100.00 - $250.00 Inkjet or laser printers but t

David, Dulux gold is a very difficult color to get right. Once upon a time the Kodak version of the Alps printer had a process orange that, when yellow was layered over, gave a really nice dulux. But

Group. I spoke with Don yesterday and he is very seriously looking at a new printer that is supposed to resolve some of the problems he is having. We did not go into specifics on exactly what problems

Steam era freight car discussion group. The time period covered will be from 1900-1960. I have used Tichy decals and use them for printing some of my OBS-CALS decals using my artwork. Yeah, they do so