Custom decals?

[hippie6]

How do I make custom decals?? Is it as easy as having clear decal sheets, an image, and a printer??

[Ace-Garageguy]

Discussed at length on the forum already.

HOW DO I SEARCH FOR ANSWERS ALREADY POSTED HERE ?

click here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79627

EXAMPLE : site:modelcarsmag.com custom decals

[Lunajammer]

  On 11/22/2014 at 3:05 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Discussed at length on the forum already.

HOW DO I SEARCH FOR ANSWERS ALREADY POSTED HERE ?

click here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79627

EXAMPLE : site:modelcarsmag.com custom decals

FYI, I have yet to have any success with this method on either of the three Macs (using Safari) I have available to me.

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 11/23/2014 at 12:28 AM, Lunajammer said:

FYI, I have yet to have any success with this method on either of the three Macs (using Safari) I have available to me.

Works great for me running Win7 and Chrome, Firefox or IE.

It's a Google search term...are you saying your Mac is somehow blocking Google searches ??

Here's one relevant thread I just pulled up...http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/?showtopic=87001

Here's what looks like a good link... http://www.fireballmodels.info/custom_pricing.htm

Here's a 2008 writeup on the Testors decal system... http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/decals/tes/decal_tes_decal.shtml

The truth is out there.

Edited November 23, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[jbwelda]

one word: Apple.

one more: don't

jb

[Erik Smith]

  On 11/23/2014 at 12:28 AM, Lunajammer said:

FYI, I have yet to have any success with this method on either of the three Macs (using Safari) I have available to me.

Works fine for me on iMac, iphone, etc.

[Lunajammer]

  On 11/23/2014 at 12:30 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Works great for me running Win7 and Chrome, Firefox or IE.

It's a Google search term...are you saying your Mac is somehow blocking Google searches ??

No, it's not that. But I'm a little suspicious that I need the very latest versions of Safari. I encountered this when I tried to access the General Motors image library for work it wouldn't work for me because both my OS and browser are not the very latest. 4 years is too old in the tech world.

[Russell C]

  On 11/24/2014 at 4:22 PM, Lunajammer said:

....both my OS and browser are not the very latest. 4 years is too old in the tech world.

I've got a 2007 iMac with Safari version 5.1.10, not updated since last year. Plopping the "site:modelcarsmag.com custom decals" string in my Google search window works in an instant, I just tried it. However, I pretty much always use Firefox and whatever version they keep sending me as updates. I've been using a bookmark for some time now, made for the times when I need to find a particular model here, except I have it set up to find images in Google.

[Lunajammer]

This pretty much sums it up.

[Russell C]

  On 11/25/2014 at 6:07 AM, Lunajammer said:

This pretty much sums it up.

Yes, but that result comes from placing the string in the web site url window. Don't place it there, place it in the window I show in the green oval, to the right of where you see web site addresses, and hit the Enter key on your keyboard.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Exactly. It's a Google search instruction, not a web address, and has to be placed in the Google search box to work.

An alternative is to open www.google.com, and place the site:modelcarsmag.com whatever term in the big Google search box there in the center of the screen...

You're not going to the Model Cars Magazine site with this search instruction (which your browser thinks you want to do if you put the term in the site url window, and it doesn't recognize "site" as a valid prefix). What you're doing is instructing Google to search the modelcarsmag site for entries relevant to your search terms.

[Gothicz House Of Kustomz]

How did this thread turn from talking about decals to, computers? I mean really with yer BS, ya coulda helped the guy already, hell ya coulda said here check this thread, who cares how many times it has been talked about, ALWAYS gotta be BS around here.

Know what Hippie, send me a pm, and I will walk ya thru anything ya wanna know about decal work, YES I make kustom decals, screw this bird.

Edited November 25, 2014 by Gothicz House Of Kustomz

[Lunajammer]

  On 11/25/2014 at 1:10 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Exactly. It's a Google search instruction, not a web address, and has to be placed in the Google search box to work.

Yup. That's the deal. User error. (*Sigh*) . I feel like the archives have now been opened. This is a great site, where questions get answered. I've been helped and I hope Hippie found the info as useful as I have thanks to all your constructive input.

Gothicz House Of Kustomz... not so much.

[Russell C]

  On 11/25/2014 at 6:51 PM, Lunajammer said:

...I feel like the archives have now been opened. ... I've been helped and I hope Hippie found the info as useful as I have....

While the words search feature usually works reasonably well at most web sites, placing the word "site" immediately followed by a colon and any given web page url preceded by or followed by (it doesn't matter) the words you want found in any search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc) will open up worlds of material. Once you are into those search results, don't forget to click on the search engine's Images link, so that you can more readily see what you are looking for.

One more thing, place your chosen words within quotation marks and it narrows down the search to yield only results for that specific phrase rather than showing you results for one or the other but not both, for example "1952 Plymouth". From that you see just two results, as compared with all results for 1952 or Plymouth when there's no quote marks around them.