--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
> The solution for all this is for the decal people to simply sell "one
> time or multiple use rights" to their artwork.
I've often wondered why Microscale wouldn't do something like this! How great
would it be to go into a hobby shop, walk up to a computer, select the sheets
(or portions of sheets) that you want, hit print and walk out with fresh
decals?! The price you'd pay would be based on the number of artwork sheets
you accessed, the print area and the number of colors. Microscale could
provide the hobby shops with the printers and decal sheets, the hobby shop
doesn't have to inventory the decals (saves space and saves taxes on stuff that
doesn't sell), and the hobbyist gets fresh decals on demand.
If the artwork were stored in a vector graphics format, you could adjust the
scale to whatever size fits your model. If the vector graphics format were a
common one, hobbyists could upload their artwork (kind of like Shapeways, only
for decals) and anyone could have access to someone else's artwork. If you
didn't have a local hobby shop, you could order directly from Microscale in
this manner too. Since this would apply to all scales and the military and car
modelers too, it'd be truly amazing what could be done! Want those 1:24 auto
decals scaled down to fit 1:64 autos for a model railroad? Done!
I only use Microscale here because, to my knowledge, they're the only model
railroad decal manufacturer left. Everyone else is a custom decal business.
But there's no reason one of the custom guys couldn't do the same thing!
Regards,
Rhett Graves
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