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Help. My decals disintegrated.
teak29
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Florida, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 27, 2013 - 10:22 AM UTC
I'm building an old Revell 1/28 Sopwith Camel Kit and have run into a problem.
The decals in the kit shredded by just placing them in water.
I could replace the roundels with the decal sheet from Revell's Spitfire 1/32 F-24 Kit which
match the camel roundels in both color and size.
Blue outer circle, white middle circle, red center dot.
1 7/8" diameter.
I can buy some Aussie decals but they'd cost $35.each. Ouch.
I'd really need 2 since the bottom wing decal needs the same. Ouch, ouch.
Is there any way to buy, borrow, beg or steal these decals?
I wrote Revell but that looks like a long wait.
Jessie_C
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Friday, December 27, 2013 - 10:37 AM UTC
If you haven't soaked all of them, the way to save what's left is to coat them with Microscale Liquid Decal Film. You can get it at any well-stocked hobby shop.

Depending on the colour scheme, most of it should be amenable to masking and painting, and it'll probably look superior to old Revell decals anyway
Siderius
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Tennessee, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 27, 2013 - 10:44 AM UTC
I second what Jessica said, Microscale Liquid Decal Film is good stuff. I had a terrible, terrible, terrible time with some MD-80 USAir decals, and the only thing that saved me was this product. One word of caution, you might after applying the decal preservative onto the decals, need to use a strong setting solution like Solvaset; which will allow the decals to conform to the surface of the plastic. That was the only problem, if you want to call it that, that I had. Good luck to you. We have all experiences lousy decals and it is a very frustrating situation to be in. Russell
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