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32nd scale camel woes

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    November 2005
32nd scale camel woes
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:15 PM
Howdy! I have found myself the guest of honor at a butt-whoopin', and sure could use some advice.

I'm building an Academy 1/32 scale Camel for a client. It's going okay, but today I started the decals. The roundels are in 3 or 4 layers. The bottom layer is white, and is pretty opaque. When I put it down on the ribs of the upper wing, it just wrinkled up and darn near crawled off the wing! Neither Micro Sol nor Set did the trick. I thought it was going to snuggle down, but when it dried, about 80% of it had lifted. 3 iterations didn't help.

I'm putting the decals on a good gloss coat. Are there better decals than the Academy kit sheet? Is there a technique that will get 'em to flatten out?


Wess Rodgers
Albuquerque, NM
  • Member since
    September 2004
  • From: Utereg
Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 6:36 AM
You might use future a a setting agent

  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 11:55 AM
Thanks for the tip! Future works for everything else, so I tried it. No joy. The decal lay down flat when it was wet, but as it dried, it pulled taught across the tops of the ribs, and ended up with almost none of the decal even touching the surface of the wing. I tried pressing it down into the contours with a piece of foam, but the decal ripped. Ggrr!

I'm experimenting with masking the markings and painting them.

Wess
  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Saratoga Springs, NY
Posted by Jeeves on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 12:50 PM
Wess--

I believe it was Steve (Blackwolf3945 Take Two) who did up a tutorial on what you are attempting...although I can't seem to find his website....hopefully he'll chime in...
Mike
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 3:01 PM
I hope so, too. I'm experimenting with photo frisket paper. How do you get that stuff to conform to contours so you don't spray under it? Even though I sprayed away from that exposed edge, there was still some bleeding.

I'll try anything that doesn't involve birds or small mammals. ;-)


Wess
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