Living Underground Metro2033 Zona Alfa etc

If I am honest this was my favourite bit.

I have been playing around with affinity for ages (a photoshop competitor) and I HAD heard rumours of people making their own decals…

So I bought some Microset and Micro Sol and also some waterslide decal paper both white and transparent.

I then searched the internet for things I liked. I found decals were really only tank based for ww2 for soviet graffiti. With this in mind I looked for pictures I wanted to include (red dwarf/simon pegg inspired) and mixed that with Metro 2033 references, actual soviet propaganda and real life soviet graffiti.

I amended the pictures slightly in affinity and made the sheets attached below.

If i am honest, I printed them out, painted ‘ard coat or some other satin/gloss varnish (so the ink doesnt run) dunked them in water (sometimes with a bit of micro sol and then painted the surface with micro set and then attached the wall.

Please feel free to use the pictures.

—–below this line is some things people asked me on facebook so may be help here also ———————————————————————

Yes I used white and clear, the white didn’t seem to do too much different however only a very small number of these are the white version (I now wonder if there wasn’t alot of difference due to my files being PNG).

Most are clear. It is good to note that the colour of the wall helps immensely – I have a few red walls where it just doesn’t work as well.

– Images were from the internet the high res the better, some were posters, others are actual pictures of graffiti (I was annoyed that there were no russian/soviet decals not meant for tanks/ww2) so I created my own using Affinity (a photoshop like software), I did change the pictures sometimes if the photo was at an odd angle.

-There are PNG websites out there which were also really handy (this is where i got the soviet posters from).

– I did buy micoset/sol. I didnt realise I have been using them incorrectly until very recently – Most of the above were actually just painted with games workshop ‘ard coat (or another varnish) and then dropped in water. (The varnish is to stop it running).

I only used the sol when it was tricky to remove still, however I did brush it on more so as time has gone on.

The micro set is really good as it helps it get into the crevices (the one i have is ‘painted on’ effect, some if you look closely are sitting on the surface (when i didnt use the microset). Whilst others are ’embedded’ where i did use it. Good thing is you can pretty easily rip them back off if dried

a good point to make is, printers dont print white, it is the paper that is the white. With decals anything white will be see through unless you buy white decal paper. However even this had trouble going up against very dark walls.

my blue soviet walls held up better to graffiti decals than the red, which is why halfway through the build i painted more blue walls as even after washes the graffiti decals still looked good.