Mark my . . . . Cessna
I simply could not wait any longer
And so, before the final details got painted etc, I had to put on a few decals!
First, the extra name was used as a testobject on a piece of styrenecard
The decals come as mentioned with two names, the original as on my drawings, and the new one as the name I used had been used before on a helicopter.
I’ll let the pictures speak:
I think the first two decals went rather well.
@gblair and
@kalamazoo, I only used de-mineralised water, and put on a few drops on the plane before transferring the decals. No dishwashing soap, and the paint was beautifully gloss to begin with! First the large one – like a dream! The second was the very long one-piece registration and harpoon (yep – the logostripe is a stylised Greenlandic harpoon). First try, it was a bit high, then I put a wet brush under it and moved it – that made the long line bend. A bit of extra water, and some careful moving supplied by pressing out excess water with a cotton swab, and there you are – no broken lines – except the ink gave up in a few places du to me bending the decal, but the backing is intact, full length.
As you may notice, the decal seems to fall into the rivets and so beautifully – I will try some decal sol or set on the spare in a few moments to see if it is mild enough not to solve the ink.
The rest will wait a day or two in order to be able to handle it without moving the ones already placed should I be careless enough to touch them.
Who knows – perhaps fully marked and gloss clear next time? You’ll have to stay tuned to find out
