@hptiggelaar, thank you, Harm. It is definitely a kit which you would have loved to build. You might visit the SMC in Veldhoven next weekend and see if you can grab another one.
@clipper, thank you, Carl. Just a minor modification to improve the fitting.

@stephen-w-towle, thanks a lot, Stephen. After visiting the crash site and their graves, I decided to honer them with this build. Indeed, those brave men cannot be compared to Marvel hero's.

In the mean time I also printed my first ever decals. I tried two different colors of red, the upper slightly darker than the lower one. Personally I think the darker are closer to what should be.

Camo looks great, John (@johnb). Your darker decals are the ones I would choose. Also, same question as Carl (@clipper): How did you print your decals? My colored decals never come out that good. :o)

@clipper, at first I was not even aware that this was possible, but it seems that during my long absence in modelling everyrthing has evolved a lot. I printed those decals using a laser printer.

@gblair, thank you, George. Decals are printed on a laserprinter, first I searched for the correct font and simply test printed with various font sizes till I found the correct dimensions. I gave it a try with some letters printed in grey and tried those on a black surface. This didn't work, the decals were way too transparent, so I do hope that this will not be the case with the red ones.

@fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros. The darker it will be.

@clipper, thanks for sharing this approach, Carl. I will try and figure out what will work best.

John, just went throught the log, and all is looking great. Another option is to cut masks for the letters and paint them. However I do think the darker version might actually work. Looking forward to the result.

Started with applying the kit provided decals applied as well as the first set of letters which I printed myself. The result is better than I expected. The transparency is more than the kit decals but is acceptable. The red color looks pretty much like what it should be.