Thanks Tom, we have a lot of stars from kits and many different after market company's so they are not the problem. We do try to make our own specialty markings for the specific aircraft we want to make. It ends up being a hit or miss deal. We have found that the ink from the inkjet printer has to dry for a good amount of time before the ink sealer can be sprayed on. And that has to be sprayed on in very light coats or the ink ends up bleeding. Here are a few pics of the successful decals we made.
It works out much better to print on white decal paper as opposed to clear. The white background shows the ink where the clear make the image see thru.
This B-24 BOOBY TRAP has the tail marking printed on white. The nose art was printed on clear. We made several images of the nose art. We layered 2 images one on top of the other to get the correct density.
On the QUEEN OF HEARTS we found a set of after market skull and crossed bombs which went on a painted red tail, the teeth were printed on white decal paper and the nose art again was printed on clear and several of the same images were "stacked" upon each other.
This last picture is of the 90th Bomb Group , 400th's Squadron hack A-20. The stars are after market, the tail and nose art were printed on white decal sheet and worked out well. the tail took a couple of attempts to put on the aircraft but finally looked decent.
