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I'm trying to find a company/persons in the UK who can print out some custom decal sheets for me.

I'd have a go myself, but unfortunately as an Iron Hands player the majority of my decals need to be white, which I understand can only be produced using a specific type of printer. I really don't want to go down the route of painting the area white, and then placing a black outline decal over the top either - it won't work well with the paint scheme I'm using.

I used to use ELS Trains in the US to print out decal sheets for my old Relictors army, but they stopped taking orders in December 2013.. sad.png

Does anyone know where I can get some custom sheets printed out?

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I'd have a go myself, but unfortunately as an Iron Hands player the majority of my decals need to be white, which I understand can only be produced using a specific type of printer. I really don't want to go down the route of painting the area white, and then placing a black outline decal over the top either - it won't work well with the paint scheme I'm using.

AFAIK there is a third option. Buy white decal paper instead of clear, like this one. That way you just print the outline and other non-white stuff, just like printing on normal paper.

 

I cannot tell you how well that works because I have not used those sheets.

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Interesting.. I didn't realise you could get the decal paper in white.

 

I've had a look on eBay and you can get white decal paper for Laserjet printers as well. I've got a pretty amazing Laserjet printer at work, I may have to give this a go!

 

I'm quite interested in how that turns out.

 

Cheers,

Jono

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Interesting.. I didn't realise you could get the decal paper in white.

 

I've had a look on eBay and you can get white decal paper for Laserjet printers as well. I've got a pretty amazing Laserjet printer at work, I may have to give this a go!

 

Fair warning... I've tried this and it didn't work out well for my needs. Yours my vary. For me, for whatever reason the white paper was thicker (I used a Testors pack and I can't say I was thrilled with it. That may have been the main issue. Perhaps other paper is better). Also, I was doing a white chapter symbol on green armor, so I printed the design in green on white paper. Problem with that is there's really no way to perfectly match the color, so I ended up painting all around the outside. It sucked and ended up taking a long time. Basically it just didn't work well. Again, depending on your design it may work great. PM me if you'd like to hear more about my saga.

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