Bare Metal Foil brand decal paper?

[RickRollerLT1]

Is it any good, or is it shat like the testors stuff? Saw it at the LHS when I was last there and was just curious.

TNX

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[SuperStockAndy]

Trust me, don't buy anything else but actual BMF.

[RickRollerLT1]

Allright then, TNX for the info. Least I saved me som cash.

[Bernard Kron]

I've used Bare Metal Foil Co.'s decal paper for years. It's called Experts-Choice Decal Film and it comes in clear and white for inkjet printers which is what I use. They also make versions for laser printers in clear, white, gray and gold foil. I have no experience with the laser stuff but I can highly recommend the inkjet product. It's stable, keeps for a long time, and prints very crisply in a manner similar to high quality glossy photo stock. Used with a good quality decal film coating, the resulting decal is quite strong and easy to handle while not being too thick and responds very well to setting solutions .

I've never worked with the Testors product so I can't comment on it or compare between the two.

Edited October 23, 2011 by Bernard Kron

[Nick Winter]

I too use the Experts Choice BMF decal paper, it's good quality, and I've yet to have a single problem.

Nick

Edit: I made this hood bird using the Experts Choice decal paper

Please Excuse my blurry photo and still wet decal in the photo.

Edited October 24, 2011 by Nick Winter

[Harry P.]

Well, there's a new one on me. I didn't know that the BMF people even made decal paper!

[Chuck Most]

"If it doesn't stick that tells you there's something wrong with your paint job, not our perfect, godlike decal film."

[Art Anderson]

Well, there's a new one on me. I didn't know that the BMF people even made decal paper!

They don't actually make the stuff, rather they have sold clear decal film for a lot of years--stemming from when Eldred Mason of BMF was pitching the foil primarily to aircraft modelers for natural metal finishes. They offered a small line of aircraft markings in those years as well.

Art