Yes, I know that technique, I should use it more often (or always), at first I thought the water dries and becomes the glue but when I was appling decals on my Liberty "aires" (which has a very impressive decal on the plane nose) but even after a day of curing some of the decals just fall off like leaves in autum (you get the idea), this was cause by the old technique.
I do use another method of appling decals, its just soack the decal for ten second in hot water then remove off paper, I use tweeser to install it on place then a brush to remove air bubble and to applie, I did this on my scumb and it work much better.
I'll use your technique on the black hawk (which has alot of small decals) and tell the result.
Thanks alot!
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