Randy Ayers Nascar Modeling Forums

[AdamtheWayne]

This is one of those things that jumps in my head late at night and refuses to leave. Often causing headaches but, I digress.

What if... we could combine BareMetalFoil, with the properties of dry transfer? This is an offshoot of my home tampo idea. If we could get a chrome, that rubs on like dry transfer, how easy would chrome script be? I know that refers to street cars but the possibilities for NASCAR application would be just as endless. I wonder who we might contact that could make that happen?

P.S. I apologize to those of you who clicked, thinking there was a new product already on the horizon.
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[halfbreed999]

I most certainly would give it a try. And if it worked I would use it over the BMF.
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[Firefly]

There are dry transfer methods (e.g. INT) of creating metallics but not foil that I know of.
From my experience creating INTs back in the day, small detail is not sharp.
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[DaveVan]

Hot stamp foil decal is easier and cheaper.....fyi

[AdamtheWayne]

[DaveVan]

1. Hot stamp foil is what high end printers use when they need a true chrome mirror finish. Think of the old Davey Allison decals that were chrome. The process uses a mirror finish ribbon and a hot iron-like device that transfers the mirror finish from ribbon to decal. ALPS MD 5000 uses a form of this to create mirror finish print. I also have a heat transfer device used in the trophy industry.

2. I was maybe one of the largest dry transfer manufactures in the 1980- 1990's. DNL Hobbies sold thousands of tire transfers during the NASCAR boom. Dry transfers have to start with a sheet of film the same color as the final product. That's why tire transfers are so easy....one color only and white which was the most widely used transfer color before we had any desktop printers that printed white. So we would need to develop a sheet of chrome dry transfer sheet. That does not exist yet. Once we do it would be great for emblems and logos but as for window trim or side body trim it would be very difficult to design.

It boils down to tech that is common vs tech you would have to develpo.....thus the cost difference. Making a chrome sheet that would work on dry transfer process IMHO would be costly if possible. Thx

PS...all the dry transfer print shops we used are no longer in business.......good color printers have put them all out of work.

[AdamtheWayne]

Okay, I get that, cool info too. What I'm thinking along the lines of are those little plastic sheets that used to come with correc-type on them for correcting typos. If only we could get that, but with a chrome. I kinda knew this one was a bit... out there but, you never know.
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[Firefly]

I think the nature of the 'chrome' material on the carrier is a question: would it need to be a foil material, rather than a metallic medium (particles in a suspension) like chrome paint?
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