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Doubtingmango
So I just finished this little Italian job. The decals came out with a lot of the edges showing, which then got a lot worse when I added some washes. I used Microset on the decals, and then sealed them with Tamiya semi-gloss before the washes, but it actually looks like the washes got under the decals. Any thoughts?

Bogicevic Vladimir
It looks like you haven't spray gloss coat before you applied decals. Or decals didn't set well. There are two solutions. One is lacquer thinner. Put the thinner with fine brush in dots over the place where you have silvering. Thinner should destroy the film. If it raises paint under, just leave it, it will settle back. Important thing here is that, once you applied thinner, you shouldn't touch decal for something like 20 minutes, at least. Second way is mix of sugar and water, half - half. You make a hole with a needle on the decal, than you put mix on the top. It should enter in the space between decal and paint and, when drayed, make a gloss film in between them which will act as a gloss under the decal. Wipe excess mix with wet cloath and you are done.

Mr James
How annoying. I've never heard of the sugar water trick from Bogicevic. I'll be interested if this works. If the thinner, sugar trick fails, what else can you do but use a scalpel to cut around them, since you've sealed it,

Mr James
Oh, nice paintjob by the way

Doubtingmango
Thanks mates! I believe Bogicevic is right. I think I did fail to gloss coat before the decals. I think I'll try the sugar water first

Bogicevic Vladimir
Ok. There are few small tings I should add then. Heat the water first, when hot it will disolve sugar beter and apply it while it's still warm, it will have more viscosity. Make small hole or slice with modeling knife, put few drops of mix on the top and let it dry. You will see emidiatly if it's penatrating. When dry, wipe carefully excess mix with moist cloth. Repeat where neaded. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it worked for me many times.

Doubtingmango
Thanks Bogicevic! I'll give it a shot. If it doesn't work I'll try the lacquer thinner technique. I love this site!

Mark Sherwood
Where the *uck's this been hiding. Very nice build Mr Mango and I hope the decal solution from Bogicevic work's out🤞

Doubtingmango
Thanks Mark! So I punched some holes in the decals and applied the warm sugar water, but unfortunately it did not seem to make a noticeable difference. I decided my best shot was to just grab the scalpel and remove the decals, which was very easy. Bogicevic said the solution would get under the decals! I have successfully applied new decals, and my little Italian job is now base-worthy. New pics to come.

Bogicevic Vladimir
Well, you find a solution, which is the most important thing. I can not know why something that worked for me many times does not work for you in this case. Maybe that what I think is silvering is residual glue from decal paper. Who knows... Anyway, good luck with your project.

Doubtingmango
Thanks Bogicevic! You were definitely part of the solution

John
All's well that ends well. 👍 Mango, your builds have me hankering to do some armor but I still have commitments to do a couple more a/c. When I do get a chance, part of me wants to start small with a Pz IV, but another part says go for broke and do a Maus!

gorby
Very nice work!

Neuling
Good result anyway!

Doubtingmango
Thanks guys!

Doubtingmango
As promised, new pics of the new decals have been added, along with pics of the work I have started on the base. Once again, thank you for the help Bogicevic!

John
Really cool base! 👍

Guy Rump
Great result on the tank, the base looks good too. 👍

Doubtingmango
Thanks John and Guy!

Doubtingmango
More work on the base. Just need to paint up the base and add foliage

Doubtingmango
And it's finished

Rui S
Great work allround 👍 Beautiful vignette

Doubtingmango
Thanks Rui! Always appreciate the feedback

Tcamp
Awesome work

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful work, congrats!

M0rce
That's pretty cool 😎

Bobby Thumbs
hey man that palm tree is badass excellent work

Doubtingmango
Thank you all! The palm tree is badass, but I can only take credit for the placement. I got it off an Ebay seller from Thailand, Thannan Diorama Exporters. Not cheap, but I had to get one to see if they were as good as they look. They are! Also need to give a shout out to Value Gear for much of the stowage.

Landlubber Mike
Wow, this is fantastic!! The model and the base looks amazing, but that palm tree really pulls it all together in an extra special way. Well done!

Doubtingmango
Thanks Mike!

Spanjaard
great you resolved the decals issue, fantastic dio

Doubtingmango
Thanks Spanjaard! It was a nice save

Bobby Thumbs
aww man I thought you was a next level tree maker - i was gonna hit you up for hints

jaero
thats stunning!! the rocky terrain looks great, and so does the camo

Doubtingmango
Thanks Jaero!

Clair Greenwood
I sure hope one day my models would look half as good as your work sir 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Riho. Keep it up!

Riho Sakrits
Thank you!

Clair Greenwood
Precision approach, Im loving it. Is that putty around the bogies to hull fitment? Just curious 🙂

Joern Semrau
Hallo Juan Manuel, danke für Deine Nachricht. Der Transport nach Sapnien würde € 16,49 kosten. Ich habe gesehen, dass der Karton beschädigt ist, der Inhalt aber in Ordnung. Daher würde ich Dir den Bausatz für € 25,00 verkaufen.
Inklusivce Portokosten müsstest Du mir € 41,49 bezahlen. Gerne mit PayPal als Freund (ohne Gebühren) oder Banküberweisung.
Viele Grüße
Joern

Juan manuel González Campos
Guten Abend Jörn, teilen Sie mir Ihre Daten mit, wenn Sie können. Ich habe es nicht eilig, da ich diese Woche etwas zu wenig Zeit für die Arbeit habe, um die Zahlung über Pay Pal vorzunehmen. Vielen Dank und eine gute Nacht.

Joern Semrau
Guten Abend Juan Manuel, danke für die nette Nachricht!
meine PayPal ist: joern.semrau@arcor.de
Wenn ich die € 41,49 (ohne Gebühren) erhalten, dann sende ich Ihnen den Bausatz. Bitte die Adresse nicht vergessen!
Herzliche Grüße & einen schönen Abend!

Juan manuel González Campos
Guten Morgen. Gestern habe ich Ihnen das PayPal-Konto geschickt, ich hoffe, dass alles korrekt ist. Liebe Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende.

Joern Semrau
Hallo Juan Manuel, ja, das Geld ist angekommen. Leider waren doch Gebühren von PayPal enthalten. Es sind nur € 40,11auf meinem Konto gutgeschrieben worden. Am Wochenende mache ich das Paket fertig und am Montag geht es auf die Reise zu Ihnen.
LIebe Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende!

Juan manuel González Campos
Grüße, was für eine schamlose Person, mir wurde zu keinem Zeitpunkt gesagt, dass zusätzliche Kosten anfallen. Normalerweise wird bei der Bezahlung eines Artikels, den ich außerhalb Spaniens kaufe, nie etwas berechnet. Wenn du mir deine Handynummer gibst, schicke ich dir ein Bizum. Natürlich werde ich sie kontaktieren und selbst wenn ich nichts bekomme, werde ich es an ihnen auslassen. Wenn ich ein Problem hatte, sagten sie immer, dass sie nichts tun könnten und ich es mit meiner Bank klären müsste. Sehr leid. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld, wir sind in Kontakt.

Tcamp
Texas hurricane is underway let the fun begin!
Sorry for inverted pics cant get rotated🤠

Ben M
Rotation is well hidden. To rotate your photos, open your album. Click on "manage". Then turn on the "advanced options" toggle. You will now have the ability to rotate photos in the album.

Tcamp
Thanks ben
That was driving me nuts!!!!
Appreciate that brother!

Ben M
Glad I could help, mate! Looks like a fun build.

Tcamp
So far so good just a cat 1 now hopefully ill turn her into a cat 5 (LOL)

Tcamp
I reworked the main jib boom
I wasnt feeling the kit one
Its still a work in progress

Doubtingmango
Beautiful work!

Tcamp
Thank yall
Im not a rivet counter or anything but.....
The more i looked at the kit boom i could not figure how it would work ..
Revell had their boom right im also going to support mine as they did and use poles instead of ratlines. Which tie down inside of the work area ?
Im not feeling that one either lol
Again thanks

M0rce
Oooohhh... so nice 🙂
A Lindberg kit? Seen them but never got one, yet. That looks amazing.

Snake Plissken
Started out life as a Pyro Plastics kit which in turn was a reverse-engineered copy (pretty much a blatant rip-off) of the Model Shipways wooden kit of the M.T. (Motor Trawler) Hildina H-222 which was built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. in 1951. If you look for photos, you will see it matches the Hildina except for some artistic license in the pilothouse windows mainly but an easy fix. The sloped rear pilothouse roof is also a distinctive feature of the Hildina. Apparently the front boom can face forward or aft (is it on a swivel?) according to need. I know the boom was used to hoist the cod end (heaviest part of the net) aboard. These kits are a great basis for conversion to R/C as the original plastic kits were motorized.

Tcamp
Cool info snake..
In my minds eye its on a swivel i didnt model a swivel base ( prob should have)
And i just liked the chain ( lol )
I wasnt sure what it was midelled after so thats good info
Thanks man