Scratchbuilt Victorian workshop

[white knight]

How did you do the lettering? (all of it)

[Remington]

Good question, White Knight!

BRILLIANT work, Michi! Great building indeed. Also interested to know how you did the exposed brickwork. Is it a foam core board with some of the foam core exposed and marked as brickwork?

[leonmallett]

How did you do the lettering? (all of it)

I am guesing the all-black lettering is Letraset (or similar).

[Michi]

I am guesing the all-black lettering is Letraset (or similar).

That is a special trick I learned decades ago from a custom car magazine. People who couldnīt airbrush and liked to have some Boris Vallejo fantasy paintings on the bonnets of their cars simply bought them as posters, gloss varnished the surface and glued the poster face down to the varnish wet bonnet. After it was thoroughly dried the posterīs back was soaked with water and the wet paper crefully rubbed off, leaving the print mirrored on the bonnet.
I did the same with the wall writing. It was a word document written in old english text font, then mirrored and printed on a colour printer. The rest was done as descibed above.

It works perfectly with every kind of print and paper. Simply choose a light background and work very carefully. You can apply pin-ups to warbirds and whatever you can imagine. Just test and experiment a bit, itīs easier than it reads...

[Michi]

Also interested to know how you did the exposed brickwork. Is it a foam core board with some of the foam core exposed and marked as brickwork?

No, it was simply carved into the plastic surface with a scalpel.

[FramFramson]

That is a special trick I learned decades ago from a custom car magazine. People who couldnīt airbrush and liked to have some Boris Vallejo fantasy paintings on the bonnets of their cars simply bought them as posters, gloss varnished the surface and glued the poster face down to the varnish wet bonnet. After it was thoroughly dried the posterīs back was soaked with water and the wet paper crefully rubbed off, leaving the print mirrored on the bonnet.
I did the same with the wall writing. It was a word document written in old english text font, then mirrored and printed on a colour printer. The rest was done as descibed above.

It works perfectly with every kind of print and paper. Simply choose a light background and work very carefully. You can apply pin-ups to warbirds and whatever you can imagine. Just test and experiment a bit, itīs easier than it reads...

Just to be clear, the steps would be as follows?:

1 - Create printout, with the image mirrored it if need be (i.e. for text).
2 - Coat the printout with a layer of gloss varnish.
3 - Apply a layer of glue to the surface which will receive the image
4 - Stick the gloss-varnished image on the wet glue, let it dry.
5 - Wet the paper down, then carefully peel it away leaving the image behind.

The only thing I'm not clear on is do you let the gloss varnish dry or do you stick it on the glue while both are still wet?

[Michi]

Just to be clear, the steps would be as follows?:

1 - Create printout, with the image mirrored it if need be (i.e. for text).
2 - Coat the printout with a layer of gloss varnish.
3 - Apply a layer of glue to the surface which will receive the image
4 - Stick the gloss-varnished image on the wet glue, let it dry.
5 - Wet the paper down, then carefully peel it away leaving the image behind.

The only thing I'm not clear on is do you let the gloss varnish dry or do you stick it on the glue while both are still wet?

Step 2 is: Cover the surface with a gloss varnish where you want the printout to be.
Step 3 is: Stick the printout into the varnish (it is glued by the varnish, no additional use of any glue at all!) and press it on firmly, then let it dry.

Go on with step 5. That easy it is... Start your first attempts on a white flat and even surface. Try newspaper letters, small colour magazine pictures and self printed laser and colour printouts to see what works best for you.

[6milPhil]

Very nice indeed, especially like the wear and tear on the building, which is often much more work than the basic build... 

Thanks for sharing

[FramFramson]

Ahhh, I get it now.

Very nice trick! Yes, thanks for sharing!

[aircav]

  that is bloody brilliat 

[Svennn]

that is bloody brilliat 

it is better than that  - brilliant

[Rabbitz]

Had a try at the lettering but cant seem to get it to work at all.

I printed a picture out onto paper.  Glass varnished the surface of the model and pushed the picture onto the varnish whilst still wet.   I waited for it to dry but nothing happend, the paper with the picture on just fell off in one piece.   Am I doing something wrong?

[Michi]

Had a try at the lettering but cant seem to get it to work at all.

I printed a picture out onto paper.  Glass varnished the surface of the model and pushed the picture onto the varnish whilst still wet.   I waited for it to dry but nothing happend, the paper with the picture on just fell off in one piece.   Am I doing something wrong?

Too wet, maybe. Try a subtle layer of varnish an press the paper until it sticks firmly.