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I remember an article in the old-style innovative-ish Model Railroader which described taking magazine ads, cutting them out, and then sanding them down from the backside to create a sort of decal, which could be applied to the side of a building to look as though it were painted there. The trouble with the self-adhesive labels is that they are thick, so they'll always look like a tacked-up poster; this is fine, if it's what you're looking for. The point of decals, though, is to look as though they were painted on. Also, I have to wonder how long the adhesive will hold up; usually these things begin to curl at the corners over time. Maybe a clear sealing coat can prevent this... I don't know. <br /> <br />I have actually been contemplating using my color laser printer at work to print out things like wall siding in order to make scratchbuilding stock; brick and stucco patterns are complex and extremely difficult to create in N-scale, yet rather easy in a computer image-editor. Buildings would thus have no 3-D relief but rather have photographic-quality shading and shadow lines, which at this tiny scale will likely be better. I think I wil rely on a spray adhesive to affix regular print paper to a substrate such as styrene, rather than use a self-adhesive paper.
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