Shar build, looking good! How did you find their white decals on top of the Glossy Sea Blue, are they covering well?

Thank you.

Well, they do cover well, there is no color bleed through but they are very brittle and would not conform to surface.

I tried 5 or 6 treatments with Micro Sol and they finally gave in after several more with Future.

They are beautifly printed and in perfect register, colors are good, but they are not thin as say Cartograf or Microscale.

You can see in this second picture how they didn't "sunk" into the panel lines, they just "stood" there. I really didn't expect this 🙂

I cut the stars and bars into three pieces and applied them one by one.

Eduard stencils, which I used, behaved perfectly.

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Sweet looking Hellcat ! Paint job looks really great . Keep up the awesome work 🙂 I have two Hellcat's built and a third one to start soon..

Cheers Brian

i have been hearing nothing but less-than-complimentary things about Sky Decals. Some of the grumbling is about accuracy errors, research mistakes, etc. but the BIG complaints i'm hearing pertain to the decals really poor adhesion characteristics. I have the Hellcat sheet myself but i'm 'fraid to use it.

So, we have two extremes: on one end, we Have Kagero (Techmod?) Hellcat decals which exhibit a "death grip" once applied (which makes repositioning difficult) on a model surface and on the other extreme, we have Sky decals that have to be bullied, coaxed, cajoled and in some extreme cases downright glued to the model.

Strangely enough, it seems people just LOVE the Eduard kit decals. No complaints at all.

Did i happen to mention how much i like those Barracudacals? LOL

Very small progress. With current tempo I just might finish it by the end of the year.

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