MER Clinic: Creating a Stencil for Your Logo

When decals just won t do the job, you can t find them, or you can t get your hands on an Alps printer - create and paint your own logo on your preferred rolling stock using this technique, which is borrowed from the world of PCB production. The process is not very complicated, using your preferred graphic editing program (Corel Draw examples will be shown), and materials available at your local Radio Shack store and on-line. The result is a durable brass stencil that can be used over and over with your airbrush to paint logos on a large number of cars, engines, and/or buildings. As an added bonus, the printed logo can be made to have the fuzzy look of sprayed-on lettering as in the prototype.

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