oh you gotta be kidding me!!!

jinithith2

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From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus

oh you gotta be kidding me!!!

Posted by jinithith2 on Sunday, May 1, 2005 9:33 PM

I heard somewhere in the forum that tamiya decals suck like a bucket of ticks, and they insinerate in water.
I got this 1/35 scale Sherman early and M1A2 Abrams (Tamiya) for my birthday so I was worried that my decals will go bad and i will be stuck.

So i looked in the squadron site and they didn't have any of those!
can you please give me the links to the decals?
maybe cuttingedge? does eduard make decals?

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 10:11 PM

I haven't had any problems with Tamiya decals disintegrating. You should be ok with the decals you got. sorry I don't have a link to anything for ya.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 8:59 AM

I have three models from Tamiya "M1046, M1a2 Abrams, and M2a2 ODS" haven't had a problem with the decals yet....actually they're the best i've ever used....

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Borg R3-MC0

Member since
September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Monday, May 2, 2005 9:19 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by jinithith2

I heard somewhere in the forum that tamiya decals suck like a bucket of ticks, and they insinerate in water.

Are you sure? Tamiya one of the leading manufacturers. I never had any problems with one of their decals. Have you tried one of the decals? (there useally are some spares of a version that you are not building)

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echolmberg

Member since
February 2003
From: Green Bay, WI USA

Posted by echolmberg on Monday, May 2, 2005 12:59 PM

I'd have to second what everyone just said. Actually I just finished up a P-51 and they went on rather nicely. And this is coming from a guy who previously despised Tamiya decals. All I'll say is that I was rather surprised. They snuggled down nicely with Solv-a-set even over those pronounced aileron fairings. Maybe I had a run of fluke decals in their previous kits. Who knows.

Eric

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jinithith2

Member since
January 2005
From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus

Posted by jinithith2 on Monday, May 2, 2005 1:52 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by RemcoGrob

QUOTE: Originally posted by jinithith2

I heard somewhere in the forum that tamiya decals suck like a bucket of ticks, and they insinerate in water.

Are you sure? Tamiya one of the leading manufacturers. I never had any problems with one of their decals. Have you tried one of the decals? (there useally are some spares of a version that you are not building)

really?
there was a thread in the aircraft section about the tamiya decals disintegrating in water.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 2:09 PM

Decals will disintegrate if they are old, or if they've gotten hot. Is it possible your friends have seen something like this?

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rebelreenactor

Member since
October 2003
From: Clovis, Calif

Posted by rebelreenactor on Monday, May 2, 2005 5:36 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by wrodgers

Decals will disintegrate if they are old, or if they've gotten hot.

this is the only time I have ever had tamiya decals not work. I tried to use the decals about a year after I had opend them they would not come off the backing paper. This is the only time they didnt work. They have always seemed to wrok ok, so you should be fine, and those are 2 of Tamiya's "newer" kits.

John

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qmiester

Member since
May 2003
From: Central USA

Posted by qmiester on Monday, May 2, 2005 7:20 PM

John,
I've had that problem a couple of times in the past - appears to be caused by the decals getting damp from moisture in the air - they glue themselves to the paper.

jinithith2

I'm like most of the guys, I've never really had any problems with the Tamiya Armor decals but I wouldn't give you a dime for a truck load of Hasagawa decals.

Quincy

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, May 2, 2005 9:07 PM

I built a Tamiya Zero way back int he 80's that the decals basically either were welded to the paper, or if they came off came off in bits...

Since then I have had good luck with them... not sure about Armor but the Tamiya decals I have used on aircraft worked fine... (even with Microset and sometimes Microsol)

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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Spurdog

Member since
August 2003
From: Ireland

Posted by Spurdog on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 7:24 AM

In my experiences with Tamiya decals, the aircraft decals can be dodgy, while the armour decals are fine.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 8:06 AM

Building the Tamiya Gloster Meteor 1/48, I had some problems with decals as well.
Strangely almost all the decals went on perfect. The fluently adapted the with some set and sol to alle curves and panellines.
Two decals - the large roundels on the wings - all crumbled up. The two large decals that were ;layed on a perfectly flat service, went wrong. I was very surprised. I used a nother set of roundels to fix this. This didn't work out brilliantly as well, but luckily was less rinkled.

http://m.1asphost.com/svankreijl , under built models

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overkillphil

Member since
October 2004
From: Northern Indiana

Posted by overkillphil on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:29 AM

I have to figure that after all the gripes I have heard about Tamiya decals over time, that eventually Tamiya would figure it out and fix them, so maybe they have started to improve their decals. After all, who wants to be known as the company that makes great, well thought out kits with crappy decals?

my favorite headache/current project: 1/48 Panda F-35

"I love the fact that dumb people don't know who they are. I hope I'm not one of them" -Scott Adams

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, May 5, 2005 7:44 PM

Jinithith2, your kit's decals might be fine. The thing is that not all the decals in Tamiya's kit's are printed by the same decal company. I think it depends a lot on which company Tamiya outsourced the printing of the decals to for a particular kit. I know the aircraft thread you are refering to, as it was me who started it, and the decals in that Tamiya P51 Korean War kit definately were rubbish and disintegrated in the water (as they also did for a few others apparently). Yours may be perfectly OK.

Cheers....Snowy

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Armour_freek

Member since
April 2004
From: QLD, Australia

Posted by Armour_freek on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:54 AM

I have never ever had any problems with tamiya decals. Try them and see for yourself, if you do have dramas maybe try microsol and microset. they make decals a whole lot easier.

Dave

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knight667

Member since
January 2004
From: Philomath, OR, USA

Posted by knight667 on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:46 PM

Never had a problem myself, but they do take longer for the glue to soften, I've found. Testors seems to be the fastest, with Revellogram falling somewhere in between. But no disintegration problems or anything.

John "The only easy day was yesterday." - US Navy SEALs "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." - US Marine Corp. "I live each day/Like it's my last/...I never look back" - from "I'm A Rocker" by Judas Priest

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 15, 2005 4:08 PM

I have found that decals can vary from one kit to another....I have some Lindbergh kits that the decals were terrible in......I haven't had a bad Tamiya decal set yet......

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:45 PM

Jinithith check out "Archer Decals".
They are the decal experts and they provide decals for almost anything you might be looking for.
Highly recommended.
Smile [:)]

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jinithith2

Member since
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From: returning to the FSM forum after a hiatus

Posted by jinithith2 on Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:48 PM

thank you all!

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