Finally I was able to have a bit of bench time after my city trip to Rome. What a wonderful city this is with impressive structures left by the Romans, specially the Coloseum is an incredible work of art.

Back to the Fw190, after performing some paint corrections I started with the decals. A special decal sheet from PrintScale was provided by Bernard @lis. It was my first experience with this brand. The decals are very thin, which I was not used to, so starting was a bit troublesome. In the end they do lay down quite nicely with the help of Microset. The swastikas were in two halves and I did not succeed to get them overlayed nicely. Luckily I had a large sheet of swastikas for various aircraft which I used instead.

@fiveten, thank you, Spiros

Decals look great on, my friend @johnb! Always a good question on how many of the stencils should be applied. My feeling is that, once in the field, after touch-ups, most would have been overpainted.

A fantastic paintjob, John @johnb! That camouflage is complex. Looking forward to seeing it with a matte coat! Interesting to read about the PrintScale decals, been looking into them on ebay.

@fxrob, thanks a lot, Felix. The PrintScale decals are very thin and not easy to handle, likely due to my clumsiness. When placed they do follow the surface nicely.
@clipper, thank you, Carl. That is a good idea, gonna try that.

Landing gear and propeller attached. The spiral decal was a real fight, still not perfect but I think it is acceptable this way.

Looking excellent from here, my friend @johnb!