Here's the original kit decals, probably from the mid 1970s.
They aren't creased or yellowed.
I've had the same bottle of MicroScale Liquid Decal Film for years, it seems to last a long time. This comes in handy when you have older, questionable decals.
It seems to brush on thick but dries very thin on the decal face.
A few of the decals are set down first, then more cardstock rectangles and a dowel are glued down with contact cement.
Down the inside centerline of the propulsion unit tubes. That forward rectangle will get a cardstock piece glued over it. A dowel is glued on over that.
I built that one back in the 70's I believe. I forgot how hard it was to build. Only flew it once.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got your decals to behave. My inner-nacelle and nacelle wrap decals and one Primary hull decal behaved and the enough of the others gave up the ghost, so I got some after-market ones from JTGraphics through CultTVman.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when the Estes decals were the gold standard for the plastic modelers.