A wonderful 23 mile bike ride helped me forget about the current World situation but did make me appreciate even more the local environment and doing things others no longer have a chance of doing for the foreseeable future. An hour in the Man Cave AKA whisked me away into the delightful world of applying decals to the Italeri Scania 143 model. I have applied the decals to one side today. A complicated job with 12 separate decals, many of which had to line up with others to look right. There was also a need to trim some and try to get them to conform to the various contours of the cab shell. That latter issue is taken care of a decal softening solution which in this case is Micro Sol. This is supposed to soften the decal material so that gravity lets it drop into the dips of the model. When you first apply it the decals wrinkle up as in the photo below and it looks like a disaster which is typical of my work anyway! However leave it a few hours and hopefully all dries to a wrinkle free and contour hugging finish. That is the theory anyway! I will take a look later complete with a ' just in case' contribution for the swear jar! Hope I will be delighted though!
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