Thanks for the comments gents as they are much appreciated. No pics but a nightmare of a day with the
decals. Not sure how long my mate had had the thing in store but the
decals looked fine. The
Tamiya instructions stated 10 seconds in tepid water to free them off, NO, it took several minutes for the first one to free up enough to be applied. I wasn't overly bothered at this stage as there's not that many to apply, then disaster, one of the main wing roundel's came free but in bits
there was no saving it unfortunately. A quick look on a well known auction site and some ordered. Nightmare two, when the first main fuselage decal eventually came free I started applying it to the fuselage and it too started to break, I managed to get it on but not happy as it's not level and needs some paint to sort it. I had already got ID numbers on so didn't want to try and get these off to start again so that will have to be its dark side. I shall crack on now with the weathering and detail painting including the clear parts and report back soon.