08-09-2023, 11:15 AM
I recently got a great buy on a pair of NS SD80MACs and an Amtrak F40 that needed some work. The one SD80 was missing the detail parts but the seller had cabbaged together some side handrails. He also included a bunch of detail parts that had been acquired from Kato when they were available. Both however were the same numbers so I would need to renumber one of them and I elected to do the one that was lacking all the details.
So last night I decided it was time to make some decals and I thought I would try scanning the locomotives to see if I could get something I could use. I scanned it at 800 dpi so the results would be suitable for a good print.
As it worked out the size was very close so I took it to photoshop and made the numbers for the cabside. The NS font is available as a free download so I used it to type over the image so I could get the size close. I could adjust the type layer until it matched the scan, then I flattened the image and cropped the area from the photo .
So last night I decided it was time to make some decals and I thought I would try scanning the locomotives to see if I could get something I could use. I scanned it at 800 dpi so the results would be suitable for a good print.
As it worked out the size was very close so I took it to photoshop and made the numbers for the cabside. The NS font is available as a free download so I used it to type over the image so I could get the size close. I could adjust the type layer until it matched the scan, then I flattened the image and cropped the area from the photo .