Tough decaling job.
I have alclad a 1:48 T-6. Started decaling yesterday- didn't like the kit schemes, so bought a set from a place called Colorado Decals. I had never used their stuff before. I put on stars and bars in the morning, and they worked fine. Then yesterday afternoon I tried applying the ID/tail number and the USAF decals.
Wow, I am used to decals for a single area, like a registration number, or the USAF, etc. Having carrier film over the whole area. Not so with these, they only have decal film under each character! The decals are extremely thin, which looks nice, and they adhere well. But, sure is a pain to align! Very much like letreset or Archer dry transfer stuff. I did get the USAF logo on okay, and the big side ID numbers are not too bad.
Then it was time for the tail numbers on the vert stab and rudder. I sure thought they'd have one carrier. Nope, still individual characters. Boy, was that a job. Now there is a smaller "U S Air Force" decal just above the tail number. Sure hope that has single carrier film. I can't believe the tiny "no step" and such decals will be individual characters, but we shall see.
The decals are beautiful when you get them applied, except for slight misalignments and variable character spacing, but is SURE a lot of work. I think I will tear off an edge from a post-it note to help align other decals (I do not have good luck masking alclad- some of it pulls up when I pull off the masking tape). Oh, being so thin, they break and tear easily with too much tweezer grabbing.
I can see these being applied right to matt paint. Can't see how they would silver :-)