Painting AMT USS Defiant

You can download them as a PDF here:

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/amt-ertl-uss-defiant-instructions.188878/

Google is our friend.

Directly from the source:

https://www.round2corp.com/download/amt845/

God luck.  Looking forward to seeing how it looks.

You said years ago?  What condition is the mask you have on the ship?  Sometimes it might go bad and refuse to come off or leave parts of the covering on the surface or take paint off with the tape.  You might want to check.

How are the decals?

I removed the mask and the previous paint appears to be ok. decals are turning yellow so I may have to replace them, I believe I may just try painting freehand and see how it turns out Airbrushes are  nice but in my experience it's fairly difficult preveting bleeding with so much of the "Aztec" paint style needing masking and, waiting for once surface to dry, masking for another shade, masking  etc etc etc.

Doc

Just browsing and saw your problem. Whenever I have yellowed decals, I pick the window in the house that gets the most sunlight and tape the decal sheet to it (on the inside of course) and keep a watch on it. Some sheets take a day or two and some may take longer but the sunlight will bleach out the yellowing. I build mostly WWI & WWII planes and my stash contains many OLD kits with yellowed decals. I have saved around 90% of decals that I would otherwise have had to chuck in the trash and "hopefully" find replacements. An extra failsafe is to use a coat of Testors Decal Bonder on those sheets too after the yellow is gone to prevent age cracking. Hope that this helps.

Jim 

Stay Safe.

PS - Test one of the decals on the sheet you won't be using on the model to be sure it doesn't crack out.

Hi, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but I will definitley try the decal trick, BTW I am actuall trying to paint the Defiant freehand so I have given up coffee for the duration..

Thanks, Doc