The "Canada Decal" - sizes?

[rob love]

Clive Law's book "The Inlgis Diamond" has a copy of the original bulletin to the Canadian Manufacturer's association about the decals. See page 104.
It lists 4 sizes: 6, 3, 1-1/2, and 1".

[David Dunlop]

If you are doing 1-inch glitter type, I am interested.

David

[Mike Gurr]

It is possible to make these yourself as a friend of mine has made some for me. The artwork is available on line as is proved in this thread. Waterslide printer paper is also available on line, if not through high street shops, which allows you to print the waterslide transfer using your own computer printer in the same way you can print photos onto photograph paper. Once applied to the surface a coat of clear lacquer will seal it. I cannot tell yet if fading may be an issue but so far so good.

[Kevin Goodwin]

Here are the sample pictures from the company for the available water slide decals, they will be available with either the tan background or the yellow background, unfortunately the gold effect cannot be produced
1”-£3
3”-£5
4”-£7
6”-£9
All plus postage at cost
As Mike has suggested you could do them yourself with the materials etc, clearly this company is in business to make something to cover their time and costs, anyone interested please let me know what you want and you location including post or zip code

[Bruce MacMillan]

here's a photo of an original decal I have. The decal itself is 6.5" square and from the outer red circle side to side is 6.25". No makers mark but says Copyright Registered 1943.

I have a copy of a similar touched up decal that I got years ago but don't know who did it.

[Alex van de Wetering]

Kevin, great initiative!
The company did a good job with copying the original decal to a (vector) file they can use. It's not uncommon to see reproductions with a completely different font, like the WS19 decals that were available some years ago.
These seem to be properly done and I would certainly be interested in a couple.
One nitpick; the "K" in the lower left is partly missing (same in Hanno's picture by the way!)

Alex

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Kevin, did you copy the Ballard & Notton reproduction?

That has a number if known faults, one is the script pointed out by Alex, the other is the tan colour which should be more yellowish (resembling the gold flake) as can be seen in the pictures above.

What Ballard & Notton did was a good effort at the time, but we may want to improve on it this time?