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  • Member since
    April 2013
decals breaking apart
Posted by Mililani modeler on Monday, April 15, 2013 1:56 AM

Aloha,

anybody know what I can use or do to prevent older decals from coming apart before I apply them?  As I apply the decals it is coming apart while on the model and I have to use tweezers to nudge them back together again.  Any ideas, solutions?  Other than buying after market ones.  I kind of would like to use the kit decals if all possible.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Monday, April 15, 2013 8:55 AM

There are several brands of a decal coating that you paint over old decals and it holds them together. I use Micro Scale brand.  After coating (and letting it dry) you now need to cut the decals out from the sheet with much more care than with the kit decals- the film makes the whole sheet on decal unless you carefully apply it just where the old decal film was (hard to do).

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    April 2013
Posted by Mililani modeler on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:30 AM

Aloha Don,

Thank you for the tip I will try and go find it at my local hobby shop.  If not I will have to order online from another store.  Appreciate the tip, happy modeling.  Aloha David

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