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Your link does not seem to be working. Is this the stuff:
St-Louis-Crafts-Sheet-Aluminum

36 gauge: 5 MIL (.005 inches/0.127mm thick)
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Self adhesive foil

Has anyone tried this printable aluminum product:
https://alumajet.com/

Comes in .005" self adhesive as well as thicker.

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Anodized Aluminum Inkjet Printing

I've been experimenting with printing on anodized aluminum foil using pool acidifier (to avoid having liquid acid around) to etch the surface. Anodizing is the same method used commercially for inkjet printing on aluminum (but at an affordable price). Haven't advanced to the tooling foil stage yet.

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Seams to be interesting, but also seams that the printed ink could be easily delete.

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Seams to be interesting, but also seams that the printed ink could be easily delete.

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That's the really interesting part of the technique. The following entry explains it:

Aluminum anodizing explained:

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This is a fascinating technique, I tried it on a model of the Lockheed Super Constellation I am working on.
The effect looks quite good. The only thing that took additional work was, that the panel edges tend to curl loose. I glued them down with Microscale Metal foil adhesive.
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This is a fascinating technique, I tried it on a model of the Lockheed Super Constellation I am working on.
The effect looks quite good. The only thing that took additional work was, that the panel edges tend to curl loose. I glued them down with Microscale Metal foil adhesive.
wow your model looks very awsome with the aluminum, yes it requires a bit of practice or even improves the technique.

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