Carbon fiber decals in 1/48 plain weave (-229 engine)

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by drhornii » 13 May 2008, 14:11

Finally some decals that will help you represent a F100-PW-229 on your 1/48 Viper (I think it looks fine in 1/32 as well).

Scale Motorsport, known for automotive decals, answered my call on these decals and produced a great decal for the military modelers.

http://www.scalemotorsport.com/merchant2/

Shown is a 1/48 Aires exhaust nozzle
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Hasegawa PW nozzle 1/48
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by ViperEnforcer » 16 May 2008, 04:42

Been using the Motor Sports carbon fiber decals for a few years now; so this is just now making out to other parts of the jet modeling realm :)

Did they actually scale their 1/43rd sheet to 1/48th? They actually look scaled for 1/32nd than 48th.

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by drhornii » 16 May 2008, 12:26

ViperEnforcer wrote:Been using the Motor Sports carbon fiber decals for a few years now; so this is just now making out to other parts of the jet modeling realm :)

Did they actually scale their 1/43rd sheet to 1/48th? They actually look scaled for 1/32nd than 48th.

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Not sure exactly how Matt did this (scaled from 1/43 most logical). He sid this pushed the limits of the printers capability. The first run was too light and I had him darken the decals.

As for 1/32 scaling on these, I agree, it would look just fine in 1/32 and looks ok in 1/48 as well. Depends if you really want the weave to stand out compared what CF really looks like.

David



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