Recent content by jayse

Ha, my girlfriend just told me about this. RAD.

Thanks ShogunLogan! Ah man don't tempt me about your custom engraving! haha. I'm imagining that's QUITE pricy... Glad it helps tho! It's a gorgeous prop to try to replicate, that's for sure!

So for cutting I have two options - one is to cut near the artwork, and the other is to cut wide around it and let the edges of the gun define the cuts. First idea was to cut intricately around it - so I setup a silhouette cameo to do the precise cuts. Works perfect with blade set to 5...

The outer flower. So this art doesn't exist anywhere as far as I know. I've seen a few variations but none of them struck me as fitting in the art style of the piece just perfectly. I was looking at the awesome decals Epilepticsquirl did, and how I think he took these flowers from his decals...

Did a temporary test for how it would look on the gun... Very thick decal edges since for the test I did inkjet + two clear coats before cutting - but other than that, happy so far. At least I think it's the right direction. :-)

For the screen pattern, I basically traced the exact size and pattern from the corrected photo, and made a pattern out of it. (Edit>define pattern) Then I just created a layer mask and painted out the details - and the edges. I also applied the layer style to the pattern - to give it...

So my girlfriend wants to do Babydoll for Comic Con. No complaints here. ^____^ I decided I wanted to get a much more engraved look from my decals. I'll try to write in some detail in case it helps you do your own! I started by scanning 1200 DPI from the book to get a lot of detail. (At the...