Patto's Decals

[RallyRaider]

Has anybody any experience with Patto's decals? I'm thinking about ordering some and wondering if it would be a good thing.

I've heard he uses an ALPS and can be a bit slap happy. Any other opinions? He does have what he calls a "Super Quality Option" that might be worthwile. It would be awesome if his stuff was of acceptable quality, because he has an enormous range.

[freakray]

Never heard of them.
Link?

[RallyRaider]

www.pattosplace.com
His main stock in trade appears to be slot cars, so I don't know if his stuff is accurate and clear enough for our needs

[freakray]

He's certainly got some interesting (and potentially useful) stuff.

Prices don't seem terrible either.

Feel like being the guinea pig?

[Kurzheck]

I'll let you know tomorrow, I'm picking up a bunch of decals I ordered from a friend then. Kurz

[RallyRaider]

Cool, what stuff?

[hueb_s]

Yes guys, I used his stuff for my build of the '92 Peugeot 905 LeMans Winner. These are custom printed decals made by an ALPS printer, not very high resolution (I guess mostly made for slotcars)...

Some pics of my 905:

Front view


Overall view


CF'd rear wing


Detail view of the side

Also, I ordered the decal sheets for the 93 and 94 Lotus Esprit Sport 300 LeMans contenders, which I intend to build from the Monogram kit.

Overall, I was really pleased with the decals, besides the low printing resolution it's very useful stuff.

Steffen

[RallyRaider]

Thanks for that Steffen. They look to be somewhat on the rough side to say the least. I emailed Bruce of Patto's Place and asked him a few questions. He was evasive when I asked him how his decals compared to Cartograf and the like. He referred me to the gallery on his website. Since there are several decent looking examples in the gallery (amongst some shockers as well) I decided to go ahead and ordered some of his “Super Quality” decals.

I kept it simple just some Wyer Gulf sheets and a 1/20th R4 Jaguar (conversion/kitbash of Ferrari F2001 and Williams FW24?). I think the latter will be a complete waste of money but you never know until you try He said he'll post them this Thursday so it will be a week and a half till I can give a verdict.

[Steve Gibbins]

Phil,

I'd be very interested to see what you think to these decals when you receive them.
I see he does a decal sheet for the Panoz 2002 Spirit of America car. Now that could go nicely with Le Mans Miniatures Sebring kit.

Keep us posted.

Thanks

Steve

[flyonthewall]

As handy as an ALPS printer can be to a modeler for creating custom decals, you are quite limited to what you can acheive with them. Solid colours of red, blue, yellow, black, white and metalic colours turn out fine but any other colours turn out very poor resulting with the fine dots seen above. This guy hasn't even done a good job of printing the red, yellow and blue stripes on that Peugeot either so I think you will be dissapointed with these Phil.

[lotusmark2]

Any plans for some sponsor decal sheets Chris???? (just sparco and the like)

[Kurzheck]

I got my Pattos' decals and well, I'm not impressed. I have an ALPS and know the limitations but these he's just not trying with these. The basic black is fuzzy, looks like the decals are just scans and reprints in some cases. If it's all you can get go for it otherwise, avaoid. Kurz

[hueb_s]

Originally Posted by Kurzheck

looks like the decals are just scans and reprints in some cases.

I fully agree, the 1/24 Lotus decals I got are exact copies of the 1/43 Starter kits decal, simply scale to size.

[RallyRaider]

Damn, I was not hoping for much but the simple blacks and whites looked okay in hueb_s pictures and some others I've seen. Oh well, the deed is done, the order placed and the credit card charged - can only wait and see if the "super quality" is any better than standard. I guess by expecting the worst one can't be dissapointed can one?

[cyclone1410]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

Damn, I was not hoping for much but the simple blacks and whites looked okay in hueb_s pictures and some others I've seen. Oh well, the deed is done, the order placed and the credit card charged - can only wait and see if the "super quality" is any better than standard. I guess by expecting the worst one can't be dissapointed can one?

You might be lucky mate. I ordered a couple of different sets last year i 1/24 scale to suit the Bathurst Nissan Skylines of the early 1990's. One set (1992 version) was a bit rough and had poor res however the other (1991 version) was quite acceptable. Fingers crossed.