Proton Wira Limited Edition Replica....

[cham2020]

haha
nevermind then
just help me by giving me moral support
anyway, do you know how to print decals? since you are from malaysia....

if i found the other 3 wira's , i will post it here also. all damage condition

[MidnightWangan]

Originally Posted by cham2020

anyway, do you know how to print decals? since you are from malaysia....

Well it used to be that modelers in our part of the world, sang praises about Alpine (if i recall that's the name of the brand) printers but problem was finding the correct type of decal paper. However with current printer technology, a good high-end printer (read as expensive ones ) can print decals too but the same problem persists, finding the right type of decal sheets.

[cham2020]

yea
i heard of that printer before. anyway, i have fallen asick so hard projects will slow

[druid_99]

MidnightWangan, you're a modeller from Malaysia too? Great, it seems that automotive modellers still existed here in Malaysia. It seems the number of auto modellers is still too small here (then again, maybe I didn't try too hard). Most of my friends give up building cars because it is hard to get a perfect finish.

Cham, like I have explained to you during your visit to my friends shop the other day, making a decal is a bit hard if you're in Malaysia. I have been experimenting with bubblejet printers and laser printers but none of it can get the printing result like an ALPS printer. The difference between the ALPS and other commercial printer is, from what I know, ALPS print out opaque colours while the others will print transparent colours. If you print using other printers (I've used the Xerox laser printer) you have to place the decal only on a white suface. I use clear decal papers that I can get easily from a shop nearby my house and I still didn't find any printers that can give the result like ALPS.

A friend of mine produces decals for Military aircraft (Malaysian TUDM decals) but he prints his decals at one of those commercial international printers which will only take a minimum of 500 copies of the decals and it will cost around RM1000 for it.

[cham2020]

druid
u should check the car he made..proton pert !!!! it's really a nice car he build there.
yeah druid, it's ok. thanks very much for your help. anyway, if you know where i can get the decal paper and the protector. please tell me, i don't mind printing using a normal printer since my decals are mostly silver color and not white for the wira. anyway, the printer must print a minimum of 500 ?oh my god !

i do agree, building car must have passion and tolerance....

[mrsmith1016]

i'm from malaysia too!! so happy to see ur guys cause malaysia hard to find a car modeller

[cham2020]

yeah
so far i met a few only
me, you, druid_99, Wangan Midnight

[cham2020]

i started modifying the rear and the grill. still lots of work to. i primered it to check for faults and i found many

[MidnightWangan]

Yup guys i'm from Malaysia too though i spend lots of time in our neighbouring country singapura. Yeah there really seems 2b a shortage of modelers in our part of the world, mebbe its cuz its very tedious & time-consuming to complete an acceptable kit, probably that's why more people are into RC, die-cast & the real 1:1 versions.

ALPS that's the dang name of that printer alright. I gave up finding those damn decal papers to print on, got a friend in a local mod-shop garage who does 1:1 stickers for cars, we juz re-size & print to use from the industrial-type (not really that big actually) printer.

However, we do still face problems with see-thru, clear decals tho', like those names of WRC drivers on the rear window etc.

druid_99, seen ya around in the SR-Garage forum.

[cham2020]

nice to see you here midnight wangan..... !!!!!!

can you PM me about the decals of Proton PERT

[Murray Kish]

You're definitely ambitious! That interior is gonna be a challenge.... Perhaps if you made it into a rally version, the interior could be a little easier? Just a plain dash, some rollbars and seats? Just some thoughts!

Good luck!

Murray

[cham2020]

i never thought of doing the rally version..cause i need to replicate the street racing wira.. ichecked. the dashboard is not hard. the hardest part is the recaro seats.....anyway, i will try my best !
thanks very much..iit iwll take some time though

[MidnightWangan]

Originally Posted by cham2020

can you PM me about the decals of Proton PERT

Yo bro, u got mail.

Murray's got a pretty good suggestion, doin' the wira WRC saves u all the rear-seats hassle, interiors blah2. B'sides, the rally wiras were only re-badged evos1-3 on the exterior, even the internal dashboard remains lancer's. If u do ur street-version u gotta scratch-build e wira dashboard, seats're slightly diff shapes & steering from the mitsu mirage asti series.

Man, that came out sounding strange, especially to those unaccustomed to Proton cars. LOL

[cham2020]

yep, i like murray's idea. but i promised myself to build a street version of this wira untill i located the rest of my 3 missing wira's. only then i will proceed to rally one of them. my idea was a stock wira, a rally version ,a police version and the last is a tuned version....

got your pm

[MidnightWangan]

Originally Posted by cham2020

the rest of my 3 missing wira's. only then i will proceed to rally one of them. my idea was a stock wira, a rally version ,a police version and the last is a tuned version....

got your pm

Police patrol wiras, sounds great, maybe do the highway patrol or the royal police, not the usual neighbourhood fellas. Nicer color scheme.

Hmm u've inspired me w ur 'nationalistic' ideas. :P Makes me wana build a V6 Perdana done airport taxi style. LOL Look closely, our Perdanas may be re-badged Mitsubishi Eternia with Galant parts but the overall shape resembles the current pontiac GTO very closely.