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[Barry Boor]

I am going quietly barmy!

I have been trying to print myself some Thin Wall Special decals to go on a 32nd scale slot race car but for some reason my Durabrite ink is just not behaving itself. I am out of decent sized pieces of white decal paper so am having to print on clear, and then put a small strip of white decal underneath the dark green one which has the words on it. Being clear, the white shows through.

It should work o.k. It certainly did a few years ago when I made the decals for my Connew model but for reasons unexplained, the dark green is crazing and just won't remain as a solid block of colour.

I really wanted this to work as it will be one of the 75 or so slot cars I will be taking to the slot car meeting in Wolverhampton this Saturday.

Any ideas, anyone?

[raceannouncer2003]

From my model building friend Phil Dauphinee:

"Maybe he needs to run the ink jet cleaning application on his printer and also use more sealer on the decals once thoroughly dry."

Vince H.

[Barry Boor]

Thanks, Vince. I have tried several 'remedies' but the result is the same every time. The crazing begins as the ink is drying, before lacquering starts, so I know it isn't a lacquer problem.

Anyway, as the car is going to be shown at a big slot meet this weekend, I eventually settled on one of my attempts, poor though it be:

[Bjorn Kjer]

Looks good to me Barry , if I could get some in 1/87 size..........