Thank you all for the kind words! I must admit my least liked thing, modelling-wise, has always been painting and decalling. Since switching to Revell Aqua and Lifecolor, as well as Tamiya X-22 for gloss, my painting has improved and I get to enjoy it more -though I still like the building phase more.
I've never loved decalling, since I can't seem to influence the process in any way. The decals are either rightly sized, printed or of good quality, or not, and that's about it. If they are oversized or translucent when they should not, there's not much you can do about it.
It's high praise for the Aviattic decals that after dinner I look forward to putting on a few bolts of lozenge decals, since they are very thin yet strong, have a great application manual, and actually work as advertised. On top of that, I really like the colours, too.
A thing or 2 I've found out: don't use too warm/hot water, since they'll shrink a bit and leave a white line on the join, and wait a few days before cutting the excess off. I've found a sharp hobby scissors works best for this. If they're not fully cured, they will stretch, but not cut. Could just be me, though!
Regarding the bolts vs joined, when I ordered these some years ago, Richard advised me the joined version was still in the works. Since I wanted to use it for fuselages and interiors, too, I went for the bolts since they are more flexible in use (but more work on wings as you can see!) My modelling budget is quite tight, otherwise I'd gotten both the joined sheet
and the tailor made D.VII wing lozenges in 1/72 too.
If had the money to spend I'd gotten all needed sheets in 1/32 for my D.VII, as well.
Just finished most of the upper decals for this Albatros wing, pictures will follow when done. They're kind of an experiment, as I intend to use a light blue paint pen for the rib tapes.
Jeroen
