22-08-2012, 06:38 PM
Hi Joe,
Reproducing the whites and other light shades is always the problem when making a repro glass dial. Sometimes, depending on how much of the dial is clear glass, it is possible to cut windows out of a dial printed on to photo paper and insert pieces of acetate. So you end up with bright whites, etc on the photo paper and the pointer is still visible through the acetate.
To illustrate, this is a repro dial I made a few years ago now for a Bush BP10 valve portable. The original dial was badly erased in places but I combined photo paper and inkjet clear film to make a replacement;
The last image is of the section of the dial printed on the inkjet film.
Regards
Reproducing the whites and other light shades is always the problem when making a repro glass dial. Sometimes, depending on how much of the dial is clear glass, it is possible to cut windows out of a dial printed on to photo paper and insert pieces of acetate. So you end up with bright whites, etc on the photo paper and the pointer is still visible through the acetate.
To illustrate, this is a repro dial I made a few years ago now for a Bush BP10 valve portable. The original dial was badly erased in places but I combined photo paper and inkjet clear film to make a replacement;
The last image is of the section of the dial printed on the inkjet film.
Regards
