yellowing in my decales

Gary,

I have read of some people taping the offending decal sheet to the inside of a South-facing window for a few weeks.  SOmething about the sun bleaching out the yellowed portion.  I have not tried it myself so I cannot vouch for it's effectiveness. Has anyone else out there tried this?

Daywalker wrote:

Gary, I have read of some people taping the offending decal sheet to the inside of a South-facing window for a few weeks.  SOmething about the sun bleaching out the yellowed portion.  I have not tried it myself so I cannot vouch for it's effectiveness. Has anyone else out there tried this?

well that's worth a try if we ever see sunshine again! I did find some decales in my stash that I can use in their place (from a couple junk Hasegawa kits), but on the otherhand found a couple other kits in my stash that have to have all new decales as well. This means that I could use the crosses out of those sheets to help me get by (and that's where most of the problems have risen from).

    While doing some minor house cleaning this afternoon I found an Aeromaster sheet that's about 85% complete; plus a couple other sheets that look to be from Tamiya. All these were stuffed inside a junk BF109K box (long story in itself). But after doing somemore snooping I also found that two of the three K4 kits have the wrong props! Just goes on and on! So I think it's time I learned to resin cast!

gary

 Frank,

 I've done this ,it does work but it takes time .

 Frank C

Daywalker wrote:

Gary, I have read of some people taping the offending decal sheet to the inside of a South-facing window for a few weeks.  SOmething about the sun bleaching out the yellowed portion.  I have not tried it myself so I cannot vouch for it's effectiveness. Has anyone else out there tried this?

It absolutely works like a charm. It takes a few weeks, but they'll be "like new". One caution- don't put against a glass surface directly or the condensation will get ya! Don't ask how I know. I hang it on a piece of tape from the header, back of the glass a little. I buy a lot of old kits, so it's kind of a fact of life...

I had the same problem with a set of decals last month and found the sun-bleaching answer here on the forum, and yes, it does work like a charm! Only took about 10 days, and that is in winter in the Pacific Northwest (we got lucky and had a dry, sunny streak of weather).

The condensation might be a risk, so I did two things to help prevent that:

1. put the decal sheet into a zip-loc sandwich bag

2. added a little silica packet like comes in electronics packaging. I "dried" it out in the microwave first

I put mine on the dash of my truck, which I figured would get more sun (horizontal) than a house window (vertical). Had no vapor problems and the whites came out white. If there are other colors on the sheet you may want to cut them out first though, as red especially might fade. Good luck!

George