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Midschoolfool:
Oh yeah, I bought something ! Grips !
Obviously with the colour coded front end red grips weren't going to work. Plus I wanted something relatively era correct.
Midschoolfool:
My camera really doesn't like the combination of blinding sunlight and gloss black.
Midschoolfool:
Much easier out of the sun.
Put one of my decals on the bars too.
Midschoolfool:
And failure number 2.
Whilst the decals look brilliant out of the printer and even better when laminated we have a problem.
Basically the decal vinyl is shit, and somewhat transparent. So when you put it down on black it looks terrible. I somewhat noticed this when fitting the decals I made to the fork, though it was nowhere near as bad. On the frame though they looked shocking.
It's very easily fixed.
3 quid. Sadly it's super fooking annoying lol. I might have to repaint one side of the frame. I will look at it closer tomorrow. It's just left a pattern under where the decal was, though I am not sure this will even matter once the redone decal goes over it. Will assess it tomorrow.
Midschoolfool:
I ordered the vinyl but it was bothering me. So at gone midnight I decided to experiment with the vinyl. I cut off a spare piece (from a full print) and peeled the backing. It's not even white it's just milky. So I cut it into four pieces and it took all four before the light stopped bleeding through it ffs. This is not an issue with white vinyl (stock, like I have ordered). However, the head badge decal was still on the frame. So I took the replacement I was going to back with white vinyl and placed it over a spare (non laminated) and what would you know? it's perfect. I am not going to try doubling up the larger decals (because I don't think I can) but I am pretty certain now that white backing will sort the issue.
So, the head badge decal is done, just need to wait now.
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