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gorby
Very nice work!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work overall.

Neuling
Beautiful work!

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Indeed a very nice result. What issues did you have on peeling the decal carrier film? I am a "peeler" and it works quite nice I have to say. Maybe I can help for next time - let me know

Andrzej Rygiel
Thanks for your comments guys! @Thomas - I think the main problem was that the surface of the model was not "glossy" enough and the decals didn't attach entirely, when I started to peel them off I took off portions of the stencils too with the decal film. After witnessing that I abandoned the idea to peel the film off from the insignias and bigger decals. What I also read at forums is that when you apply some of the decal solutions on the Eduard decals they tend not to be that "peel-off-friendly" afterwards. Anyway, the top satin coat covered majority of the silvering issues I noticed so it's not that big of an issue anyway - I'll be experimenting with the peeling off on my next builds.

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Peeling is tricky and in my opinion every modeller has to find what works best for him. I did some trials and I share my experience: 1.) Decals have to be really dry. I leave them 24h at least, better 48h to completely dry after application and I don´t use any decal setting solution - just good amount of water (I learned that e.g. Micro Sol set softens the decal very fast and if the decal is not in place and you have to manipulate it, it get´s a bit tricky when the decal is soft 2.) I cut the decal in recessed areas of e.g. panel lines and I use Decal softener (and a bit of pressure) to get them down to the surface and leave them to dry completely. 3.) Then I apply a good amount of white spirit and let the carrier film soak it up (sometimes I do that 2-3 times) and leave it for several minutes. Then I rub the carrier film off with a cotton bud (also a bit soaked in white spirit) and gentle rub with a turning motion of the cotton bud until I see the carrier film starts to get off. I prefer that rotating and pressing motion as peeling puts additional force a probably not 100% adhered decal. For me this works the best. Surface to be 100% polished is not a must, but for sure helps the adhesion and I did not see any difference in using decal softener or not. Even using Tamiya mark fit strong allowed to peel /rub the carrier film. I hope this helps to find the best approach for you

Andrzej Rygiel
Thanks for sharing tips&tricks, Thomas! I'll test them 🙂

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
no worries mate! Good luck and let me know what works the best for you ...

DerMattes
Following 👍

Cristian A
Welcome my friend 👍

Sergej I
following 👍

Cuajete
Me 3!

Łukasz Gliński
Me 4, will follow before this kit makes it into my stash 🙂

Cristian A
Welcome Sergej. Cuajete and Lukasz!

The kit is very nice and I love the decals, they show exactly the 43 blue in my photo posted here. So far I've found a small fitting issue to the front, but if you start slowly and work your way towards the wings it gets into place.

Oliver
Oh, I take a Seat

Guy Rump
Following as well! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
These colours look great indeed 👍

Cuajete
I agree with Łukasz 👍

★ Starfish ★
Incredible! Also thank you for those reference photos!

Cristian A
Absolute pleasure to have you here, thank you Mike_AUT

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Great looking engines! Your diorama is also shaping up nicely.
The little patch of green really breaks up all the dark colours from the aircraft and the apron as well. 👀 👍

Cristian A
Thank you Robin! Glad you like it! I also think the green patch adds a nice contrast to balance out all those darker tones 👍 😊 it took me one week to mask and paint the engines, now they are barely visible between
the vertical stabilizers 😄

Dave Flitton
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Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Cristian A
Thanks a lot @ Villiers !
Welcome @ Dflitton!

I'm hoping to get this project finished soon, even if there are plenty of details / touchups needed to be done before I can assemble everything together.

Clement
Nice work so far.
I hope you won't get silvering under the decals, those walkways look scary on the last picture.