Hard body Pro Mod Tbird

Snap out of it Phil, Just pull the trigger ;D.

Psycho Sam,
What are you using to make the lettering?
Can it be done in white letters?
I bought a decal maker kit sometime back but can't do white without a special printer that I understand has been disconntinued. Really would like to find an alternative as we would like to put class designations and car numbers on the car and they are almost always in white.

I was able to get it mounted last night. Tonight I'll make wheelie bars, get the chutes on and hopefully get the windows in.

Sam, there is a way to do white letters with an inkjet printer but it is not as easy to do as when using an alps printer. You can buy white inkjet waterslide paper, which will be white when you slide it from the backing vs clear like the paper you used for the TBIRD.

If you use the white waterslide paper you have to try to color match the paint on your car when making the decals. Try to pic a color that when printed out is as close as possible to the paint used on the car. (may take several attempts to get a good match)

Then the type the class designations in white within that color block. You are not printing white ink to get the white letters...you will be printing body colored ink around the white letters, leaving the white waterslide paper exposed to be your class designation letters. (hope that makes sense)

Print the decals and then you have to cut out the decal close to the edge of the white letters leaving just a little of the color around the edge of your white letters to blend in with the paint on the car. If you have photoshop you can type the class designation in white, then use one of the filters to glow the color match around the white letters. Then just print them and cut out close to the white letters and let the glowed color blend with the paint on the car.

I know it may be difficult to read this post and fully understand how to make white letters with the white inkjet paper...so I did a couple of real quick and dirty examples of how it can be done using the white inkjet paper. When doing it for real, you will want to do a cleaner job than the examples below when making the files to print, but this should give you the general idea. These would be an example of white letters to put on a red body where the red ink was color matched to the color of the body being used.




Once you get your decals printed just cut into the red ink close to the edges of the white letters, leaving a small amount of the red left to blend into the body color. If you just cut out a rectangle around the second example you would have white decal paper still showing around the red glow when you put it on the body.

Another alternative is to print the white letters out in a perfect box with your color matched ink and just put the entire colored box on the body. (like the 1st example above) The only reason I would suggest cutting closer to the edge of the white letters leaving only a small amount of red outline, is that if your ink isn't an exact match to the color of the body...there won't be as much of the ink on the body to be noticeably different from the paint.
Hope this helps if you want to try the white letters with an inkjet.

If you wanted to put the dial-ins and/or class designations on windshields or side glass you could also use the white waterslide paper and oultine the white letters in black ink and have white letters to put on the glass.
I think Troy has some white letter alps decal class designation that he sells but I am not sure what classes you guys are looking for compared to what he has offered in the past.

Dang Sam, you have done some very sharp cars. Where did you get the blower and hat for this.