Can I decal after the Future has only dried for 3 hours? I am sitting at home w/ nothing to do an am getting rather impatient. Thanks.
That stuff has a way of looking dry but actually being tacky. I hate to say it, but I would wait a minimum of 24 hours to let it fully cure.
If not longer. Hey, this is a good excuse to start another model.
To avoid the boring gap I usually have 2 or 3 models on going in different stages of construction, in addition but not as a rule I run production batches I mean I buidl different or sometimes the same model with different art nose or mark or whatever but the same paint schemes so I can stretch the resources as interior and even exterior colors sometimes. ( I find this approach more productive. Blame my background, I’m a manufacturing engineer in an automotive company).
Although waiting until the next is probably one’s best bet, I have actually had now trouble decaling within a couple of hours of spraying Future. During Mad Tiger Day, I think I was decalling in under an hour with no ill effects. I do live in Southern California which is warm and dry which probably helps things cure more rapidly.
Andy
Wait the 24 hours minimum. Decal solvents are much more likely to attack the Future if it hasn’t cured.
Regards, Rick
All right… I started building a T-90 in the gap. Yup, I have returned to the world of treadheads.
oh man sound the emergancy the light side is loosing tanky… someone through him a Tamiya P-51 before its to late
Gotta let it cure as said Tanky… you wanna ruin all your hard work??
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