Beautiful work! Looks like the Aviatik decals went down really well despite all the compound curves. How hard were they to apply? Any advice or lessons to share from your experience with them? I'm thinking of building the Halberstadt next.
thanks!
Dave
Hi Dave,
The decals are produced to the correct shapes to fit the various model parts.
They are not 'cookie cut' so have to be carefully cut out from the supplied sheets.
Given the shapes and amount of openings and around the edges, cutting accurately is not that easy.
I chose to cut off the fuselage decking panel area (in front of the cockpit) on the fuselage top decal.
This made it easier to apply it separately.
The fuselage decking panel and the two panels around the fuselage nose have compound curves, which make applying those decals tricky.
Despite these being the correct shape, I found that they still created creases at the edges when applied.
I had to slice through those areas with a scalpel blade to get the decals to conform.
I then brushed 'Tamiya' X20A acrylic thinners over the creases, which is more effective than 'MicroSol' solutions or similar.
Brushed sparingly as too much will melt the decal.
There are still faint lines where the cuts were made, but hardly noticeable.
Accurate cutting is important as overlapping edges of decal will show much darker than the rest of the decal.
Any overlap will need to be carefully sliced off.
Mike
The decals for the fuselage decking panel (in front of the cockpit) and the two around the fuselage nose did
