Why bother redrawing online scanned decals?
I do appreciate the instructions and scans at spacemodeling.org/jimz/ and at oldrocketplans.com. Sometimes I use them for initial tracings in Corel Draw.
The problem - You never know when the decals were scanned and at what resolution. Every time something is copied, original details are lost. Many scans don't include a 1" reference
measurement. Sometimes the color register is off.
Working at a print shop probably made me too picky!
On the right is the name set new after a font search.
Things become pixilated when copied and transferred. Here's one of the windows before and after redrawing.
These are enlargements and the rough edges are magnified. Some of the pixilation would disappear when the images are reduced.
Your redraw of the decals really make the rockets look awesome. Thanks for posting and sharing,
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill!
DeleteThis would be an interesting write-up to see how you go about the redrawing process.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous,
DeleteIt would take too many posts to cover it. It would also require the reader to have the software I use, Corel Draw. There is a steep learning curve to learning the software.
Indeed, there's a bit of a learning curve in using software such as Corel Draw -- especially if the only experience you have is with "paint" style (i.e. bitmap) software. Also as time progressed, Corel Draw has become increasingly complex which is apt to steepen the learning curve. The last version I'd used extensively (had used it to make the illustrations for some of the hardware and software manuals at work) was one that dates back to the Windows 98 days. I did try to use a much newer version (when it got installed on a co-workers computer), but I ended up falling back to the older version with which I was more familiar with.
DeleteAnd of course there's also the other potential obstacle for some folks -- Corel Draw is a commercial software, so you'd need to spend some money to get it.
If you don't already have a "draw" type software (and don't want to spend a lot of money), Inkscape ( https://inkscape.org/ ) might fill the bill for some folks.