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Date:
1/13/2020 6:01:52 AM
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Water slide decals are stupid
Once again, I have managed to destroy a model thanks to someone's moronic idea of putting crucial markings on a water slide decal. At their best, decals are microscopically thin layers of lacquer paint on an even more microscopically thin layer of corn starch. This is all right if you're doing an airplane and you only have to worry about a big fat U.S. star or a British roundel. You're probably going to weather the surface anyway, so the condition of the emblem doesn't much matter. It's not all right when you're doing a car and your decals are indispensable pinstripe markings that define a certain make and model.
Example: a 1969 Boss 302 Mustang has completely unique identifying paint which extends along the side of the body. Without it, you no longer have a Boss Mustang. Thanks to Revell repackaging an old model and probably not arranging for fresh reprints of the decals, this "paint" is extremely fragile. If you don't position it exactly right the first time, you have about one more try to move a three-part marking with very fine pinstriping, lettering, and long forking parallel lines, also with fine pinstriping. Need I point out that any movement after the second attempt will shred the decal?
For some reason, I keep buying these old reissue models, and I know that all my work will be destroyed by rubbish decals. I love these old cars, but I can't trust their QA. I like pickup trucks, They don't have many decals. I guess I'll make more of those.
