Started the
decals yesterday , first off the wing roundels . They have a seperate red dot to avoid the problem of misalignment so the main roundel has a large white area in the middle — which was very translucent ! I quickly whipped the decal back off and onto its still wet backing paper and off to the spare
decals box for some white to put on first. I found some suitable decal and punched out four white discs ( 2 for the wings and 2 smaller for the fuselage) with the hollow punches .The white discs helped eliminate the see through white areas of the decal .
The
decals arent brilliant ,with a bit of poor register and slight white outlining in places but im using them anyway. No stencils or other airframe markings are included which at this scale I can get away with , except for the prominent red outline ‘no step’ boxes on the wing tops. A suitable donor was found in the form of some old Academy P47 thunderbolt tail markings with red and white stripes. Several thin strips of the red were cut off and placed one at a time to make the box and diagonals.
here it is , next up a coat of klear to seal everything in then once dry a coat of matt .