Spent a bit of time last night designing some lettering and car numbers for the vinyl cutter. Here’s the result.
Looks sharp Bob! I especially like the looks of the large car number. The standard gauge trains I model always seem to have long car numbers but in a tiny font.
Nice! Looks great - I spent two hours this evening weeding and taping the vinyl window mullions fro my engine house project. What size are the data lines and were the difficult to weed?
The data lines were already on the car. I’ve cut small stuff like that before, though. All the graphics on my CTC panel are vinyl cut.
Rooster reports Jon Radder to the moderator : discussing weed and weeding
Looks good Bob. Cutters are certainly a powerful new tool for the hobby. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-smile.gif)
Shane
Bob McCown said:
Spent a bit of time last night designing some lettering and car numbers for the vinyl cutter. Here’s the result.
For the completely in educated what is a vinyl cutter and are they available outside the US?
Brand name would be helpful
https://www.rolanddg.co.uk/products/vinyl-cutters/stika-desktop-cutter
ROLAND is an international firm and operates world wide…
Roland Corporation Australia
38 Campbell Ave, Dee Why NSW 2099, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9982 8266
Their little STIKA machines are quite versatile… There are other machines…Some low end some darn expensive (and some of Rolands are as well!!).
I find the little Stika quite adequate for modelling needs…
Prices can vary…so look at different retaillers…I have just looked at 2 and the price varies.
Bob, what kind of vinyl cutter did you use?. My wife has a Cricut and I want to use it. What font style is this you used on the box car … Looks very nice!..
Ross Mansell said:
https://www.rolanddg.co.uk/products/vinyl-cutters/stika-desktop-cutter
ROLAND is an international firm and operates world wide…
Roland Corporation Australia
38 Campbell Ave, Dee Why NSW 2099, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9982 8266
Their little STIKA machines are quite versatile… There are other machines…Some low end some darn expensive (and some of Rolands are as well!!).
I find the little Stika quite adequate for modelling needs…
Prices can vary…so look at different retaillers…I have just looked at 2 and the price varies.
Aii Carumba those prices!!! I could buy a whole new fleet of rolling stock for that.
Graeme Price said:
Ross Mansell said:
https://www.rolanddg.co.uk/products/vinyl-cutters/stika-desktop-cutter
ROLAND is an international firm and operates world wide…
Roland Corporation Australia
38 Campbell Ave, Dee Why NSW 2099, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9982 8266
Their little STIKA machines are quite versatile… There are other machines…Some low end some darn expensive (and some of Rolands are as well!!).
I find the little Stika quite adequate for modelling needs…
Prices can vary…so look at different retaillers…I have just looked at 2 and the price varies.
Aii Carumba those prices!!! I could buy a whole new fleet of rolling stock for that.
Well, you DID ask!!! (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Looks great, Bob… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Since there would be complaints, we can’t talk about “weed” or weeding", so I’ll just say you a great job “cleaning” the lettering…
Bet you’re glad the data was already on the car. It can be a real “pain” to try pick lettering that small clean… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
I have a cricut machine $200ish? Which works just fine, easy enough to use once you get the hang of it, though without any roosters to do the weeding for you, small stuff is somewhat tedious.
Looks good Bob.
My wife bought a machine for our business and of course I bought some vinyl for RR projects and ended up lettering all my passengers cars.
It is a neat tool but those small letters are a pain.
Travis Dague said:
Bob, what kind of vinyl cutter did you use?. My wife has a Cricut and I want to use it. What font style is this you used on the box car … Looks very nice!..
I have the Cameo Silhouette.
Stan Cedarleaf said:
Looks great, Bob… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Since there would be complaints, we can’t talk about “weed” or weeding", so I’ll just say you a great job “cleaning” the lettering…
Bet you’re glad the data was already on the car. It can be a real “pain” to try pick lettering that small clean… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Yep. And logos too are a PITA. Always need for decals!
Stan Cedarleaf said:
Since there would be complaints, we can’t talk about “weed” or weeding", so I’ll just say you a great job “cleaning” the lettering…
Can this be applied to threads? "Pete, the stuff we use is called ““Weed Barrier””, made by Sta-Green… "
How well would it stick to pixels?
And what would you use to spray the interwebs anyway?
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I can get down to about 1/4", but not with serifs.
Those are the little wingy things that stick out from the letters.
I’m lazy …
"… Looked at the cricut tech’ approx. 3 yrs back at that time restricted to only certain fonts using some cartridges; as mentioned smallest .25" (can actually weed a bit smaller than that i’ve found); what vinyl usable in cric’machine … don’t recall, But decided to delay the new front dr. purchase (till last jan.) and purchased a roland sv-8 instead
btw vinyl (smf brand) 2ml 7yr outdoor say a yard of 24" wide less than $10cdn, strip it down to 8" width …"
"… I’ve cut down to 3mm on a test/sample sheet in ‘franklin gothic medium’ ranging from 30mm—3mm, BUT that sample at 3mm the weeding (by this novice) was a failure !! At 8mm was almost, with only 1 of 13 characters weeded badly.
Recently before Xmas, I did 10mm in ‘courier new tur’ which all weeded well (3 ‘boards’ of 22 characters ea., only need 2 ‘boards’) .
*Unless peoples like a challenge, and/or have to order product from out-of-country (base+exchg/s/h/i $) to supply your forecast home projects … do business with the 3 or 4 previously mentioned ‘shops’ ! … "
… so copied my posts from 02/15 post (geez that long ago !?) on this thread;
http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/22990/vinyl-transfers-for-my-passenger-cars/view/post_id/270600 (‘search’ actually worked well ! ) 
doug c
p.s.
IF exchange was not presently so bad combined with increased shpg costs, I would order some dim data from SC !
Doug Cannon said: {snip}
p.s.
IF exchange was not presently so bad combined with increased shpg costs, I would order some dim data from SC !
Doug… I can design the pages so the data will fit into a standard #10 letter sized envelope and shipping would only be $3.00 or so… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I’ll cut a standard US letter sized page in 3rds… Works right well…