I have been looking and looking to see if anyone was reproducing the very simple decals that were sold in the early 1960s Centuri catalogs, and decorating the kits in those catalogs. We're talking 1/4" and 3/8" checkerboards in black or red, and simple black lines to wrap about body tubes. That's it. We have a couple of very good decal providers right now who do a great job with model-specific deal sets that I would never be able to reproduce, but I could never find these really basic lines and checkerboard, so I'm just trying to make my own. Simple graphics created in things like Google docs I hope will print and display well, But we'll see.

Assume Centuri didn't make those decals. Probably made by MicroScale Decals, which was the only decal supplier back in those days. Try these links:
https://www.microscale.com/Merchant...gory_Code=CHECK

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2...ry_Code=STRIPES

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Thank you, I will check it out.

Yes, at one time or the other both Centuri and Estes carried those checkerboard and stripes decal sheets. Same exact sheets. I never knew who made them originally.

Earl

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Yes. I'm just a little surprised that for the most part these decal sheets have never entered the pipeline of preservation, scanning, sharing and reproduction as have so many of the model-specific or company logo decal sheets that are widely available today.

The checkerboards were available in many colors, 1/4" and 3/8" (I am not finding this size), and many colored stripes. By the late 1960s, the "roll" pattern decals were sold the same way and can be seen on nearly all Centuri catalog and facecard pics of the time. These also seem to be very difficult to find - unless one happens to be part of a model-specific sheet, and then only for that particular BT and model. So I am learning to make those as well when needed, which is only feasible because they are so simple.

I haven't looked recently, but "Trim Monokote" (which is simple adhesive sheets, not heat shrink) came in a variety of checkerboards.

I used that for my Aero-Dart Mark II recreation.

The other checkerboard on that model is a clear label stock run through a laser printer, wrapped around chrome Trim Monokote.

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