Hi again. This test was done with ALTENEW brand masking paper. Got it from a place in Tasmania... That's where my wife comes from too, incidentally.
Anyway...
The first cut was far from promising.
I made 8 examples and decided to push through and see if I could make a decent representation of the text I needed.
After weeding, my mask looked like this:
was
I didn't do a perfect job of weeding, and I think my my blade setting of (1) might have been better at (1.5)... if you can set it there. Now... I have never messed with the cutting settings of my silhouette portrait. Everything is still the way it came out of the box.
Here is it painted on a very new paint mule.
My poor weeding shows, but you can see that my hasty job isn't too different from the decal below.
The main difference between the paper stencil used here and the Oramask 810 I use for everything else, is the superior tackiness of the paper mask. When I cut the 8 examples in Oramask, every triangle from the number Four ended up in the little cylinder holding the knife blade. And they weren't tacky enough to
hold on in the face of airbrushing. Whereas the center of the numbers and letters of the paper masks were tacky enough to be attached to the model after the main body of the mask, and stand up to airbrushing.
I've included the ruler for scale... But I think I can count this as a minor victory. If anyone can give me some ideas about messing with the cutting settings... I'm all ears.