Recently I bought 2 of Tamiya's P-51B's for a project I had in mind. When I went to apply the decals, I noticed that one set was printed on white paper, and said it was printed in the USA. The other set was printed on blue paper and said printed in Japan.
The white (USA) set was crap! The decals fell apart when you tried to apply them, broke apart on the paper before you could even get them on the model, etc.
The blue (Japanese) set worked great. The decals came off the paper easily, went down smoothly, and bonded well with Micro-set and Sol.
Has anybody else noticed this? How can you check which version of decals are in the box beore you purchase it? I know I don't want to try and use Tamiya USA decals again!
I e-mailed Tamiya this morning requesting a replacement set - so far have not heard anything back from them. . . .