Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Geoff Cropper on June 21, 2011, 07:52:00 pm
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Hi All, How many of us has bought a packet of vinyl letters to name our boats only to use 3 names, 2 on the bows, and 1 on the stern. At £5+ per packet, what a waste of money and letters. There must be thousands of half empty packets all over the country. In the past, you could buy 1 packet of letters which had different sizes of letters and numbers inside. Now you have buy 2 or 3 packets to finish the job properly. I have 3/4 of a packet of 8mm white vinyl letters & numbers left over and need some 4mm white letters, so I'll put them on swops & wants. Why can't manufacturers put different sizes in one packet?. Oh yes, I forgot, they'd be losing money, silly me. Regards Geoff.
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If you contact BECC, they can produce names in vinyl to suit your requirements, no letters left over and no wastage. Silly you indeed :-))
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Why not just order the size and colour lettering and numbers, words you need from Barry's Model Lettering? I use this quite often for boat names etc, all nicely spaced out and ready to put on. I've done that plenty of times with no problems and no waste, just a thought. I still use sheets of becc lettering if I need a lot of a particular size/colour as this method may work out less expensive sometimes, Dave. :-))
http://www.modellettering.com/ (http://www.modellettering.com/)
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I find the daft thing about these, given that they are made for modeling is that they include "£" and "@" etc....not seen many boats called £@?
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I make my own and used to make them for other modellers as well. I did have a website advertising all what I did but in the end packed that in because it was a lot of hard work for very little return, especially when people sent me a photo of a design they'd seen on a boat somewhere and asked me to reproduce it, not taking into account the time involved in finding it, scaling it properly, transferring the jpeg image to a vector image my CNC plotter could understand, then finally cutting it, weeding it, and finishing it off. If I were to have charged a nominal £10 per hour, including the materials and postage, they would have laughed at me. I stopped doing it for £2 an hour, wasn't worth it {-) {-) {-)
Lettering and numbering is entirely different, much faster and easier and I still do that if a club member wants something, my favourite designs at the moment are the Marlboro colours, which 2 of my boats have.
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I find the daft thing about these, given that they are made for modeling is that they include "£" and "@" etc....not seen many boats called £@?
I would guess that they are not made specifically for modelling - they are made to sell. You are seeing a situation where they are being sold to modellers - somewhere else in the world the same items are being sold to people who need "£" and "@" etc...
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I find the daft thing about these, given that they are made for modeling is that they include "£" and "@" etc....not seen many boats called £@?
Call your next build "£££@@££"
Waste not, want not. :-))
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Also part of an ancient script system called - Alphabet. :-))
Lost art No 137, How to make transfers
Regards Ian