For the first time in years, I am fiddling with a decal sheet. 😠 Mucho frustration applying decals and even though I have all the tools for this type of work, I am out of practice. :| Also, no way I am doing all the decals in one sitting. This is going to take forever.

So I have a Humbrol Gloss coat on this model, and as water drops comes onto the gloss coat, the gloss coat go much lighter, as if reacting with the gloss coat. This will dry up and look ok eventually. Tiny patches of paper towel works nicely for sucking up excess water, without disturbing the placement of the decals, sucking up water by capillary reaction.

Apparently it is a good idea to make sure the decals are floating well off the decal paper, or risk having some kind of adhesive that doesn't help when trying to place the decals onto a model. The larger the decal the worse it gets it seems.

I don't remember decals sheets taking this freaking long to loosen the decal. With this A400M Revell kit, it seems it takes forever for the decal to loosen up. I suspect that having warm water might help, but I can't keep refilling the bowl with warm water, and I have to rely on room temperature warm water.

Oh, Revell why must you place large intricate decals in the middle of the damn decal sheet, making it more difficult to cut out?