Waterslide heraldry decals??

[Babelfish]

I was about to offer you some of Tommi's stencils Steve-looks like you've been there already

Keith

If all else fails (and it probably will ) I might take you up on that mate because the ones I have left are either too big, too small or not right for what I need. I've had the idea of maybe airbrushing it next time for a more "gentle" paint application that might be less likely to bleed under the stencil.

- Steve

 

[Banjer]

To follow up: I e-mailed Derek, and this morning received a reply from his son Duncan telling me that Derek sadly passed away a couple of weeks ago.

Very sad news, and not the sort of reply I was anticipating.

- Steve

That's really sad, he was a real gent and extremely helpful.

Bill

 

[mazayas011]

muy buenas referencas las que tiene Andrea

 

[Billy Dickinson]

The ‘Mighty Brush’ does a fair selection of heraldic decals. Looking at the website it appears each sheet has a range of sizes from 2mm up to 14mm, so suitable for larger figures as well. Never seen them before so can’t vouch for the quality. But worth a look.
https://www.themightybrush.com/product-category/waterslide-transfers-decals/heraldry/
Billy

 

[Redcap]

Morning Del. Yes those are the stencils I was using. I've had them since about 2011-ish and I don't think that Tommi has made any more for a long time.

I have a few sheets including the one that you mention but it didn't work. I got the basic shapes (Jerusalem Cross i.e. large cross plus 4 smaller crosses) but as I said, the paint bled under it. I tried touching it up but the small crosses looked awful so I gave up and got the Dettol out on the shield. I put it down to a combination of the shield's slight curvature, the age of the stencils (too "low-stick") and my own incompetence.

- Steve

Steve.

I have the same Tommi W stencil set you mention. Quick tip - apply the stencil and burnish down and then quite quickly, spray over it a coat of matt or satin varnish which will 'seal' the edges and also prevents lift of the vinyl. Use acrylic rather than enamel (I use Tamiya XF range) and then just spray the block colour for the cross with a suitable Tamiya acrylic colour. The varnish forms a seal/membrane to the vinyl and prevents any paint bleed. Just mist the paint on rather than apply heavy or 'wet' and also, don't spray it directly at an angle into the edge of he stencil itself (if that makes sense?). Leave it a couple of mins and then remove the stencil after, say, 5 mins or so. Then, leave the acrylic to completely harden (say overnight) and then detail and paint as normal with oils which I know is your medium.

I have recently done just this with one of Tommi's Roman stencils and achieved (for me) pretty much a perfect result from using the stencil itself. BTW, if you have run out of 'Kingdom of Jerusalem' crosses, let me know as I have them for the larger scales at 75mm upwards and can send you some.

HTH mate.
Gaz

 

[Martin64]

Hi Steve, found them. Internet is down so be a bit patient with a further reply from my side. Cheers Martin