How to make perfect Cockpit Decals (Cessna 172 G1000 Flight Simulator Home Cockpit)

This video is about how to use waterslide decals (which are widely used in plastic models) to make cockpit decals for flight simulators instrument panels.
I have used drdecalmrhyde.... to print the decals. the product which I have used is:
drdecalmrhyde....
you can apply a coat of Polyprotein clear coat to protect the decals. I will apply mine, next time when I remove the panel for maintenance.
You can find the texts here:
www.thingivers...
I hope it helps you with your home cockpit project and good luck!

[@CessSim]

Total respect buddy for a painstaking task.. Great stuff and I am really enjoying seeing this sim come to life....nice work !!

[@HomePilot]

Your decals are at the hotel pending for pick-up! I hope you like them. I ordered 2 sets for backup. But the fist one came out very good and I didn't need the second set. So, I brought them for you... 🙂

[@CessSim]

@@HomePilot cheers mate. Great appreciated.....have a safe trip back and looking forward to more of your videos....

[@FlightSimMaker]

Looks Great!

[@HomePilot]

I am putting a video together about the G1000 units now. Please send me a good quality logo of yours. I am going to introduce your amazing PCBs. I am going to share the laser-cut plans of your bezel design too. I also ended up designing a small PCB for the cheaper Chinese version of the ELMA dual encoder. I will send you the Greber files so you can add them to your arsenal! I am halfway through editing Part 1 and finalizing the laser cut designs...

[@FlightSimMaker]

Message me on the discord, I will see if I have one.@@HomePilot

[@HomePilot]

@@FlightSimMaker I found a good one in the G1000 google doc.

[@Wayne-Jones]

Still don’t know how you made them, this should have been called “how to apply decals”

[@HomePilot]

@@Wayne-Jones Hi, I have explained it on the other comments before. There are decal papers which you can print out your own decals yourself. They are available for both inkjet and laser printers. I print them myself for my other projects. But because this decals where in white colour, I was not be able to print them myself. I had to outsource them to a supplier who does the custom decals in white ink.
Please let me know what sort of printer you use, I will find you the right paper and will send you the link. Also, I am more than happy to share my custom made decal files so you can print them yourself. 😀
(I will do another video showing the printing/sealing process of the custom decals on my next project. But in the meantime, you can refer to Dr. Decal website. They have a good training video there.)

[@_r-a-f_]

How to "MAKE" perfect decals? Yeah go buy them from an outside company. Maybe rename your video to -> "How to apply waterslide decals"

[@HomePilot]

They are not ready to use products. I prepared the files an got them just to print it as my printer doesn't do white ink.

[@williamroberts5943]

@@HomePilot But How did you make them

[@HomePilot]

Did I say: 'How to make water slide decals"? I believe I didn't. My target audiences are those cockpit-builders who are looking for a solution to write WHITE text (non-backlight enabled) on their cockpit internals and their instrument panels. if you are after the exact method of how to print custom-made decals, please have a look here:ua-cam.com/video/-4APq1SMvck/v-deo.html
I am happy to share the video of all my failed attempts trying to find the right way to write the white text on those panels, but that will be boring for most of the audience... I think I will do that to end all this debate (if I get time).

[@_r-a-f_]

@@HomePilot The title of your video is "How to make perfect cockpit Decals", and the opening shot is you opening an envelope with ALREADY MADE decals by somebody else, showing precisely zero information how to make them. Let me guess your next video - how to make cockpit panel will be you opening a package from FDS... :D

[@HomePilot]

@@_r-a-f_ I have a question , I if you want to make an electronic circuit, after you design the PCB, are you make the PCB yourself?
or you get it to PCBWay for example to make it for you? This is the same story. I designed the decals, I have shared the files for who ever want to use them. I shared where I printed them and I never said how to make waterslide decals. I can not be clearer than this. I am not going to change anything and I am ending this conversation here.