The going suddenly is much heavier (Lance, you might be interested to read the following carefully), as it is mostly a combination of me doing shortcuts (that don't work at all) and WNW's shxxxx design fighting me, for the time being successfully
After applying the decal on the fuselage's spine, i had to recognize the decal is too short. There is a visible gap towards the tailplane, and i will have to see how i can fix that on a very obvious part of the plane (apart from the fact that there is a black seam on the decal's border, that is not visible as long as the decal is still on the backing paper, but
very visible once applied...)
This might be a hidden advert for Aviattic's Naval hex Lozenge product, as that black seam appears on the top wings' decals as well. Too bad [insert some inappropriate words of bad language here, please].
As you know, i am going to build No. 1402. She had Iron Crosses on her top wing first, which were changed later into the thick Balkenkreuz type. Those nonetheless are a bit smaller than the Iron Crosses were, which means the tips of the Iron Crosses were protruding from beneath the Balkenkreuz markings - those were painted in a dubious grey colour (the tips, that is, not the Balkenkreuze).
My first idea here was to paint the iron crosses in grey and put the Balkenkreuz decals on top. As i messed up the masking, i decided to take a shortcut (stupid me), used the kit's Iron Cross decals and paited the tips with a brush. Then the Balkenkreuze went on top. Bad surprise: The Iron Crosses white is showing through. So much for a shortcut, as i have to mask and spray the Balkenkreuze now.
If you have a look at the very first picture (the one showing 1402 in all her glory), you can see thin type Balkenkreuz markings on the fuselage. Here WNW have messed up their research, as the kit provides thin Balkenkreuze for No. 1407, which were
smaller. I had applied thick Balkenkreuze first (and having removed them while using a huge amount of bad language), then the kit's thin Balkenkreuze. I knew something was weird, but i recognized it only this very morning - the thin type is too small, as the arms are too short. As the kit has No. 1401 as option C, the long thin type Balkenkreuze sould have been available, as the markings are identical to 1402... Now i have to do the fuselage markings for a third time. [insert some inappropriate words of bad language here of your own choice, please]
Lance: Please do take your time to work on those seams on the top wing, or your wing will look as shxxxx as mine...
