stencil or decal to label your work?

[Kramer]

I want to label the diorama for the Endurance I'm working on. I was looking into custom transfer cut vinyl decals to spell out the title of the diorama. I found a company a few years ago that I used to create a custom decal for my Yorktown diorama. In searching for companies now they all seem prohibitively expensive for just a couple of custom decals. Does anyone have any go-to companies that do good work for a reasonable price? Or does anyone have any suggestions of how I can label my diorama? I am not opposed to painting the words on myself, but if I go that route I'd sure like some advice from anyone who has free handed something like this. Like...are there stencils out there to help me? What type of brush and paint should I use? Any tried-and-true techniques?
Thanks,
Kramer

 

[TheGatzby]

Have you looked at vinyl lettering on Amazon?

A lot of options.

You also might check for a local 'makers' club that have those stencil machines like 'Cricut' ..

 

[Rob444]

I want to label the diorama for the Endurance I'm working on. I was looking into custom transfer cut vinyl decals to spell out the title of the diorama. I found a company a few years ago that I used to create a custom decal for my Yorktown diorama. In searching for companies now they all seem prohibitively expensive for just a couple of custom decals. Does anyone have any go-to companies that do good work for a reasonable price? Or does anyone have any suggestions of how I can label my diorama? I am not opposed to painting the words on myself, but if I go that route I'd sure like some advice from anyone who has free handed something like this. Like...are there stencils out there to help me? What type of brush and paint should I use? Any tried-and-true techniques?
Thanks,
Kramer

You may want to check out your local library. Mine has a laser cutter/printer and a 3D printer as well as a Circuit. With the laser printer you can make plaques and elaborate descriptions on all kinds of materials. The Circuit works in a similar manner. My library charged just a couple of dollars to make some plaques. You can download a free program to design what you want and send the instructions to the machine.

Rob

 

[Kramer]

Have you looked at vinyl lettering on Amazon?

A lot of options.

You also might check for a local 'makers' club that have those stencil machines like 'Cricut' ..

Brilliant! Just ordered some. I'll post how it goes. Thanks.

 

[Van]

If waterslide decals are adequate for what you need you can produce them with your inkjet printer in whatever fonts and sizes your software provides.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=waterslide+decal+paper+for+inkjet+printer&crid=TF5FWNOOZA9G&sprefix=waterslide%2Caps%2C217&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-expert-pd-ops-ranker_2_10

 

[Kramer]

This is what I got from Amazon. A little bigger than I thought I wanted, but it looks nice and appears to be high quality. I'm going with it.