I love a challenge, trying to see if there's a good gold foil decal paper out there.Good Day Gents
I have had this idea for a minuite but wanted to see what some of the dial makers in here think about it.
raffles now offers sterile dials. My thought is to buy a few of them. do some tropical air brush work on the dial and then apply a modified decal dial over top of the air brush work to create a unique tropical dial
Some of you have been following my thread on tropical dials and the main issue I have , even with using candy paints is that it is difficult to do without overspray on the text.
example of my tropical dial air brush work.
cool on the wrist but sketch under macro.
IF I was better at lume. I would just do a negative relief gilt dial , apply the decal. air brush the tropical effect and then wash off the decal to reveal the neg gilt and then clear and lume. but I wonder how difficult it would be to wash away the decal and not wash away the paint. or will the paint prevent the decal stencil from washing off.
did a test colour sample on a blank raffles sent to me when we were developing the tropical dials.
or an easier method would be : I would start with blanks but my lume work isnt pro so buying this dial with the lume done seems ideal.
buy a few of these unbranded dials
air brush unique tropical fades onto the dial surface.
apply gilt print decal dial (film or filmless ) over top the paint work.
then you get a clean looking tropical dial without overspray onto the print.
can you get a nice gold color print on a decal ? I know its not neg relief but we can have it all , can we.
as long as the paint on the decal was similar or close to the paint color used on the dial for the chapter ring markers.
My call out to any dial maker out there... who would be interested in working together on this.
if you can print off a sheet of gold print decals for the explorer I will buy some of these unbranded dials, air brush fades into them and send them to you so you can print and apply the decal on top of the dial. I will pay for the materials, prints and time , and of course you get a tropical dial for your troubles. who doesn't want to add a tropical dial explorer to their collection??
HMU if you are interested or we can group work this project and see what we come up with.
feedback welcome
Although laser engraving or pad printing might be better.
