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Posted by Andrew Bennett on 16 January 2005 at 11:27

Not sure if this is the right board but robert will swap it if it isn’t.

Hi all, I was “surfing” the net this morning and came across some people looking for miniaturised graphics for R/C models and the like.
It struck me that this might be a nice market for a begineer like me to start off with.
Is anyone already doing miniaturised stuff please and if so is there a demo available?

Regards
Andy

Dave Bruce replied 20 years, 11 months ago 7 Members · 12 Replies
12 Replies

Shane Drew

Member
16 January 2005 at 11:49

Andy

When you see ‘miniture’ in computer cut, think ‘hard’ 😮

Modelracer on these boards does all that sort of stuff, Probably be good to pm him.

Have done a few RC’s in my time. It was never cost effective in many ways. The smaller graphics are harder to weed, sometime impossible.

From experience no one really appreciated the time it took, and the money you had to charge.

I only did them at the time because I was also do the ‘real’ race cars too, it was usually the mecahnics and drivers that wanted replicas of their race car.

Don’t mean to be too negative mate, but it is not as easy as it might seem.

Cheers
Andrew Bennett

Member
16 January 2005 at 11:56

Thanks for the reply.
I take on board what your saying.
I have not come across modelracer before.
Regards
Andy
Shane Drew

Member
16 January 2005 at 12:30

Andy, check out this link

http://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=8783

Cheers
Andrew Bennett

Member
16 January 2005 at 13:09

Thanks mate.
nice one
Jill Marie Welsh

Member
16 January 2005 at 15:23

I heard that Rob is an expert
on all things miniature. 😳
love…jill
Andrew Bennett

Member
16 January 2005 at 15:38

oo err missus 😀
Dave Bruce

Member
16 January 2005 at 17:53

On the subject of models, I have been asked if I can do some printed lettering for a model collector, the lettering is only 2mm high (number plate and destination on buses). Thing is some of them are white, is it just the Gerber that can print these?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Dave
sorry for pinching the thread
Andrew Bennett

Member
16 January 2005 at 18:19

You haven’t, this is just the thing I was talking about but in a roundabout way 😀
Mike Grant

Member
16 January 2005 at 21:43

quote DaveBruce:

On the subject of models, I have been asked if I can do some printed lettering for a model collector, the lettering is only 2mm high (number plate and destination on buses). Thing is some of them are white, is it just the Gerber that can print these?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Dave
sorry for pinching the thread

This is a good candidate for the ColourCAMM PC60/600. Prints white at 600dpi where as the Edge prints at 300dpi!
Mark Phillips

Member
17 January 2005 at 00:37

one of my first jobs was to sign 2 model cars for racing , 6mm was ok to do , but the weeding was a nightmare, took ages, never used much vinyl though.

😮
Robert Lambie

Member
17 January 2005 at 00:47

good call mike, i agree, this is were the pc60 wins hands down 😉 :lol1:

can you imagine havent to keep changing the ribbons on an edge printing 6mm text or smaller? 😮

pc60 will do it from start to finish then contour cut. rez is higher than the edge too 😉
Dave Bruce

Member
17 January 2005 at 09:29

thanks for your help guys, I know just the person to call.

Cheer

Dave