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Posted by B&O SteamDemon on Saturday, April 2, 2011 4:42 PM

You can also go to CloverHouse.com and they have dry transfer decals of CSX MoW equipment.

 

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Posted by CTValleyRR on Saturday, April 2, 2011 1:27 PM

I'm assuming you're working in HO scale...

Microscale lists 3 sets of MOW Decals that might work -- one for CSX specifically, and two generic sets.

To make them on your printer, you purchase special decal paper for inkjet printers (Testors, Microscale, Walthers, and Evan Design all sell it, available either on line or at many hobby stores).  It comes in either white background or clear background, depending on what you're trying to do.  Using any graphics program (I use PowerPoint), you create your own image and print it on the decal paper.  You then spray it with a decal fixing spray that "locks" in the color.

Not very hard, but it usually takes some practice to get it right.

Many times, though, stuff like this is custom painted, not from commercial sources.

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Posted by JET52 on Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:48 PM

I am trying to find some CSX MOW vehicle decals to go on my layout. I have seen some galleries on other web sites that have the accurate stripping, CSX, Quality in Motion,etc. on the sides of the vehicles. However, I can't find any commercial ones. I was told that the images I saw may have been done on a printer. If I need to make my own, how do I go about doing it and will I be able to print them on an ink jet printer?

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