Academy 1 48 F4C ridiculous decal sheet.

Oddly enough enamel thinner is the trick for testers acrylic wash

Bish

Not familiar with your kit, but i recently built the Airfix 72nd Royal navy Phantom and it had well over 250 decals, most  of them stencils. Took me best part of a week, but looks nice once done.

 

265 total stencil insane took me a week and a bit.

On a side note I moved on to weathering and decided to finally try my testers creatfx wash honestly I'm relatively new but this wash is just incredible . 

Not familiar with your kit, but i recently built the Airfix 72nd Royal navy Phantom and it had well over 250 decals, most  of them stencils. Took me best part of a week, but looks nice once done.

Yes sheet is crazy gonna put them all on as this build has gone pretty great up to now, only bought resin seats and photo etch for cockpit. Intakes were great and easy to get rid of seam line. Thanks for the reply the middle pic is spot on . 

Plus...it's better to have the option to choose not to use some, than to need them and not have them.

That sheet is plain nuts. I've built that kit and it looks fine once they are all on. In fact, I think it looks funny without them. Having come from the Airforce I can say without a doubt that the stencil everything.

BK

Stencil applications on USAF Phantoms varied. During Vietnam, and late Cold War, they were black and lest visible... sometimes less applied even. In the immediate post Vietnam era when markings were more conspicuous, they were white, and looked to be all over the place...