SteveT
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It was exactly a foot, I sneaked in and measured it....Better than my first attempt at canopy’s Steve!! Mine looked about a foot wide. See my 1/72 sea king build!!!
Now I use tape trimmed to fit on larger clear plastic and the liquid variety for smaller areas. I apply the liquid mask with a toothpick. Works a treat using that method.
Tamiya give you a white background to apply first and then the roundel over the top once the white has settled/dried. I would use a spare decal to check the thickness on an old bit of painted area - not the model. If it covers ok then it should be safe to just use the coloured decals. The Yellow/Red ones are for the wing leading edge and the red is supposed to cover the outboard gun ports, there are two styles, just choose the one you need. Or you could just paint the leading edge Yellow...
HTH
Mike.
I’ve made a few Tamiya warbirds but have never come across that before either. Is it a new thing they’ve done on their more recent kits? I’ve seen/used several sets of decals where the red part of the roundel goes on separately, but not the whole marking.Tamiya give you a white background to apply first and then the roundel over the top once the white has settled/dried. I would use a spare decal to check the thickness on an old bit of painted area - not the model. If it covers ok then it should be safe to just use the coloured decals. The Yellow/Red ones are for the wing leading edge and the red is supposed to cover the outboard gun ports, there are two styles, just choose the one you need. Or you could just paint the leading edge Yellow...
HTH
Mike.
I have only seen it on two of their kits, one was the Spitfire and the other was the F4U Corsair. And I am sure I still have a set of the Spitfire ones in my decal folder.
Revell issued a white background to their Stuka with the dragon down the fuselage.The Brewster I built a few years ago had white backgrounds for some of the decals too, as I recall mainly for the dragons on the fuselage in one of the British versions.
My congratulation at being the only human to get past the integrated security systems!!! Well the pup!!! Now do you mind returning my secret stash of Crunchies - they appear to have gone adrift - or did I eat them????It was exactly a foot, I sneaked in and measured it....
I did not touch your crunchies, I remember leaving the wrappers next to your bed... ooops....My congratulation at being the only human to get past the integrated security systems!!! Well the pup!!! Now do you mind returning my secret stash of Crunchies - they appear to have gone adrift - or did I eat them????
Problem solved.... You are using acrylic varnish. The decal solution will react to the acrylic varnish, it is best to apply a lacquer gloss varnish eg Mr Color, Tamiya.... The decal solution will in some cases act like a paint remover as will the warm water.Well, last night I repainted that wing and then gave the whole thing two coats of humbrol acrylic gloss varnish. left it all night to dry and
just now I tried applying a decal using just water, no decalfix and.. it took the damn paint off my wing again!
I give up
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Problem solved.... You are using acrylic varnish. The decal solution will react to the acrylic varnish, it is best to apply a lacquer gloss varnish eg Mr Color, Tamiya.... The decal solution will in some cases act like a paint remover as will the warm water.
You have done nothing wrong it was the method that was wrong, I suffered the same myself, but unlike you I had to repaint the whole thing as the solution ran amok...
Do not give up - you are in a learning area, I suffered the same problems a decade ago when I came back to modelling and my mistakes were about £100 a time with cast resin armoured vehicles and using the wrong adhesive which melted the resin - and as you can see I am still here and still to this day learning, I have yet to master buildings from foam board despite watching videos on YT, and lord help me when I finally start to tackle 3D printing.....
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