Anyone who's ever painted an undecorated unit, or weathered a train car, eventually needs decals. These are my five favorite:
- Microscale, veteran decal manufacturer, covers nearly everything you'll need. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 sheets to accomplish one model however.
- Smokebox Graphics, relitively new to the market (under a decade), they provide great data and patch sets for modern freight cars, and noteably reflective stickers, to replicate modern post 2015 cars. Sheets usualy last you 3 or more freight cars, with the reflective sheets covering dozens.
- Circus City, like Smokebox, this company is newer, but creates some great sets. Noteable, is a sheet for my Arrowedge container, some good MOW vehicle sheets, and even a faded logo Railbox set!
- Highball Graphics, has hundreds of sheets, noteable are some famous freelance railroads, great tank car data, and hundreds of sheets for Northeast and Canadian railroads.
- Lastly, there's Switchline Decals. What makes his sheets great, is that he'll make up a custom sheet for you! Prototype decals he'll make a whole sheet, sell you the one, and list it for sale for other buyers on his website. I've gotten many sheets from him, check them out here:
modelrailroadtips.com/articles/25-sponso...dels-bnsf-198-decals
You can also buy Model Railroad Tips' custom run decals here:
shop.modelrailroadtips.com/decals.html
