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I'd say just paint them on. Or get a thin permanent pen and write them on. Far less fiddly and far less fuss than decals on your bases.

 

Personally, I don't like the names on the bases. A really well painted model can be really marred by sloppy text on the base. I'd rather see names done on banners on the mini itself as part of the paint job, but the lettering should look fairly crisp, not like the marine put it on himself with finger paints.

 

Decals would clean up the appearance, but you are going to have to have a light colored base to get them to show up well, or use the white decal paper, and it might be a lot of fiddly work.

You can use laser printer decal paper to make your own decals. I've tried it... and it works ok, just be aware you may end up fusing the paper inside your printer.

 

try using backpack banners (can also print those out as a painting guide or use a color printer) as an identifier, rather than on the base. Depending on how fancy you want to get, could go super stylized or more simple. Try magnets on the backpack and one on the banner, makes em easier to transport.

Photoshop is not Illustrator. Gimp does not work well for a vector Adobe Illustrator file as Gimp is a raster image editor.

 

I have been trying, off & on, to get a fully editable file to convert from Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape.

 

Give me a few days and I'll figure it out.

njm3, I'm well aware of that "helpful" article/tool/etc. It's not very helpful for someone who has avoided Python scripting for years. After all, AI has native SVG export features that work 100% of the time, unlike the py script pointed to which has a LOT of limitations.

 

However...

 

The SVG file format is not nearly as feature rich as Adobe AI. It's great if you want to manually code coordinates and manipulate effects with JavaScript events. As a stand alone graphics format, it fails.

 

After export to SVG, text conformed to a path tends to be broken apart into segments a single character long. Once you try to replace the text, it is not conformed to the original path and continues in a straight line relative to the specific character previously selected. This reduces the file as not being entirely user friendly. It would force whoever was trying to change the names to basically start over, defeating the point of a "template". This is the specific problem I am trying to work around and have had to start over within Inkscape.

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