Thursday, July 24, 2014

Using Cricut Explore to make stencils for "patch" work


So I got kind of tired of making decals for everything, especially patch jobs on freight cars where I want different numbers on everything.  I was cleaning my supply closet and found some stencils I used to use in the Army on all kinds of gear.  This gave me an idea.....

Since I model a Belt Railway which has to get lots of stuff second hand, it occurred to me that a set of old Milwaukee Road 50' box cars that I had might make good "patch" jobs.  Rather than send the cars through the paint shop, I made some stencils using my Cricut Explore and just taped them onto the sides and sprayed some new reporting marks and numbers on each car.  It turned out pretty decent.

So here are some pix I made from the project:



Above is 3 Rail Box cars that I did this way and a screenshot of how it looks in the software...









And that's about all there is to it....