Defender decals thread

[isuzutoo-eh]

I was thinking about taking a section of N-O-S County sticker in to the hobby shop, match it up with some Humbrol, go wild with the masking tape and airbrush it on permanently

[flagg]

Sclarke used to have a 110 with zebra stripes looked pretty sweet.

[flagg]

I was thinking about taking a section of N-O-S County sticker in to the hobby shop, match it up with some Humbrol, go wild with the masking tape and airbrush it on permanently

That is an awesome idea.

[RVR110]

I can't deny it - I have been contemplating some zebra stripes for quite some time now, just for fun. Kinda topical at home as my eldest child is heading off to Africa tomorrow for a 3 month trip.

It would be easy to do and I found some black decal material on ebay a few months ago. The main thing that stopped me was not knowing how easily it would come off and if the bonnet in particular might have issues due to the heat of the engine.

PS. Can you get a tropical roof for a Puma?

[Orkney 90]

I have purchased the OEM "Defender" decal that was fixed to the bonnet of earlier Defenders. The spot to place it is of course still there, which is where it will be affixed before we take delivery.
Cheers, Pickles.

Mine arrived in the mail the other day, and I fitted it to the top of the grille where it really transformed the look of the front of the car. I cannot understand why Land Rover do not factory fit them any more. It would add perhaps a couple of dollars if that to the finished car. But it looks oh so much better and fills that otherwise empty space. Perhaps I'm just too pedantic...

[Samblers]

pics please

I'd be up for fitting some old skool stripes down the side of the puma... i love a county/200/300 with the original decals

[Leroy_Riding]

I've been keen on replacing the decals on my 90 for quite some time (see below), but could never find the right design.



I got in touch with a helpful member of another forum who was kind enough to supply an Adobe Illustrator base file which I could then modify to suit. It's 90% there (and from afar looks perfect), but I'm still not quite happy with the font, and I still need to check the dimensions prior to printing.

If anyone is handy with Illustrator and has a bit of spare time, I'd be happy to provide the working draft and talk them through the changes. I've just got too many other projects on the go that it's quite low on the list of priorities. This is where it's at currently - the right hand side door is reasonably good - the LHS still needs a bit of work.



If there's interest, perhaps a group print could be organised. I imagine quite a bit of vinyl could be saved by "spooning" a number of door designs together.

Leroy, any idea what sort of printing costs we'd be looking at from your mate?

Cheers

Bojan

I will find out price for one set, then look at what we can do with more sets.

I used to be okay with Illustrator, though last rebuild of my computer saw CS5.5 not re installed, suppose I could re-install and see how my skills still are with it. .

Leroy

[VladTepes]

In theory it would be easy to print those up (from the file) in colour of choice....

[Landy Smurf]

what colour would look best on a white defender?

[Offender90]

The colour scheme could be changed to any colour desired. The initial setup may take about 1/2 hour to group all the same coloured layers together, but the colour scheme could then be changed to any set desired with just a few mouse clicks.