Thanks to Thumbs, Terri, Juan, Rick and Stephen for the comments, much appreciated!
I thought that it would be a wise move, before going any further, to get the decals on. Especially in the Baby as the aileron rigging and drag wire from the floats pass through the underwing roundals. So that's what I did today.
The Tabloid only needed the Sopwith logo and the number on the rudder so that was easy enough, although I had to cut off the "The" above the Sopwith to get it to fit. The numbers come from an Aviaeology (yes, that is how they spell it!) of pre WWII RAF and FAA serial numbers. They're a little wide, but seeing as the rudder has the Sopwith decal, 2 layers of white for the square, and 3 individual numbers on each side, I wasn't about to add to the work by cutting each number in half and overlapping them!
The Baby's fin has the wrong style "The" - because the correct decal disintegrated and I didn't have another copy with the flat wording. It'll do!
The rest of the Baby's decals, apart from the serial number, are from the Microscale roundals sheet (that's also where the replacement Sopwith logos came from) as the decals supplied with the kit had a blue that was far too light.
I also used the centre spots from a Pegasus sheet on the fuselage roundals, as the centres on the Microscale ones were too small.
Thanks for looking in!
Ian
