Decal help

[Iain]

So, I'm drawing up decals for NS Baldwins.  However, I've not done anything more complex than some white text before.  Anyone mind looking these over and giving me some critiques?

[C855B]

Is the pixelation of the text an artifact of what might be a screenshot? Also, check the "1501" in the bottom right... should it be centered in the surrounding box?

I do wonder if what you've shown for our web viewing is accurate relative to your artwork. Any way you can save your artwork sample as a higher-res JPEG, and let us take a look at that?

[Chris333]

I think you did this with CAD?  I find doing any text with CAD is a pain in the 

[peteski]

Also remember that unless the locomotive shell is white, the yellow stripes will be transparent (due to the way CYMK printers work and they will get heavily tinted by whatever the shell color is.  Black is opaque, so that is not a problem.

[kalbert]

I would suggest printing the yellow and black separately. Layering them will be thicker, but it may be hard to get crisp printing where the yellow and black touch because they might bleed and smear.

[wcfn100]

You could even paint the yellow.

Jason

[Scottl]

I'd buy microscale yellow stripes and use those, and then priint the black on a laser printer.  The yelllow text could be a bit of yellow stripe layered with the black laser.  I agree with the others, yellow does not print well and needs white backing or an opaque ink like MS uses.

[kalbert]

That's a pretty good idea! Use microscale yellow stripes then print black on clear paper and layer it over the yellow.

[Teditor]

I don't think I missed anywhere, but are you doing the artwork for someone else to print them, if not, what printing process are you looking at?

[Iain]

They're going to be printed by someone that does commercial decals, so I'm not worried about the yellow being transparant.

Yes, it's a quick screenshot grab.  I did move the numbers to the left a bit; however, they were at the bottom of the black boxes on the prototype