Hey gang, most of you know I’m a big repainter of stuff to have modern roads on small traditional 027 kinds of items.
With the loss of Hearld King and now Champ, decal sources are becomming harder to find. I’ve always liked, recommended and still recommend Mircroscale Decals, but have noticed in the last year that more and more decal sets are being discontinued. I did a K-Line Alco FA and S-2 in New Haven some years ago, and now see that set is being dropped.
I’ve been looking for some EL freight decals to repaint one of my western road K-Line box cars and found a couple a sites for consideration:
http://www.mgdecals.com/frtlistbystk.htm
http://www.primemoverdecals.com/dcaltemp.html?code=1&field=EL
http://www.railgraphicsdecals.com/Rail_Graphics_Decals_Generic_Data_Sets.htm
Now the first listed site has many O scale decals sets and should be of great interest to the do-it-yourselfer. Looks good… a good selection of current NE roads plus some neat milk car/refrigerator sets. I like the BAR box car set and there’s an 0 scale EL box car set. There’s a miinimalist D&H box car set too that I like. And the $10 price isn’t far off from Microscale these days. What’s nice about the MG Decal site is that there are pictures of the decal sets and an illustration of how to place them. Just click on the set number. The O scale sets are towards the very bottom of the page after the HO and N scale sets.
The second site has many EL sets but mostly in HO. What I have done in the past, since I am repainting smaller cars, is to use the largest HO hearld/logo sets and then use either O or S scale dimensional data to complete the car.
The last site I have done business with, and I recommend them. They make a very nice selectio