This is driving me nuts!!! I’ve been putting tiny number decals on this 1/48 Revell F-15 all frigging WEEK! I can only stand to do it a few at a time - say, one wing, or the top middle of the fuselage - per night.
It’s the IsraDecals sheet for the F-15I. There must be hundreds of little numbers. Every inspection panel on the whole airplane!
I’ve decided I’m not going to do the bottom. Not only because I can’t stand to spend another week at this (which I can’t ), but because the belly is light ghost gray, and the stencil decals are dark ghost gray. You can barely even SEE the damn things once they’re on! That’s taking low-vis marking to an extreme - especially considering how colorful the rest of the plane is. So screw 'em.
Damn, I started this thing to take a break from staships. Now i need a break from this!
I feel your pain John. I love to decal, but modern AC have so many stencils, not only on the airframe but the ordinance as well. But, like Mike said, stay with it, they do look nice when all is done.
Have you been to see your Optomitrist lately? After putting on all those itty bitty decals, you must be nearly blind! But it certainly does look good. I guess that’s why some modelers put so much effort into the interior of models when no one will be able to see most of it. You know it’s there!
that DOES look good! Usually I don’t like to stick all the tiny decals on either… both for lack of eyesight and patience, but also on the hi-vis schemes it almost makes the plane look TOO busy… but that really looks good! If it snows in July I ever get the urge to do another modern aircraft I will think about that… I think it really did add something to it!
It looks great. That is the way the real aircraft looks when it is delivered from the factory or goes through a complete depot inspection. I can feel your fustration, but what if you were doing it in 1/72 scale? It would be time to call the men in the white coats and butterfly nets. [banghead]
and I thought i had it bad enough with my last modern a/c project, which only had like 20 stencils on each wing. and now that i see what you have to work with, what can i do but take my hat off to you in admiration…lol
Ping, you might not say that if you had any idea what I’m facing with this sheet of dry trasfer stencils going on a 1/48 A6M3 Type 22 soon. Now that some people have finally some some hard research, we now know that the Japanese were almost compulsive about stenciling their a/c and the only reason we haven’t had these stencils is because somebody (a lot of somebodys, but one or two in particular) spent years researching them for the restoration of real Zeros. And they are tiny. More often little bitty shapes than actual instructions about what’s on the other side of a panel, though what is there is in Japanese so I don’t know what’s up and what’s upside down. But, God bless Hobbydecal for their magnificent dry tranfers of stencils for all these old and new a/c types. With dry transfers, you can actually read the things, and when your done they are perfectly flat with the surface. You don’t get that “model with a case of hives” appearance as with thick water slide decals such as Tamigawa stencils.
The drawbacks? Well, for one, rubbing those little buggers on one by one is even more trying that what we’re used to, I think. The good part is, once they are in place, they don’t move. The bad part is, once they are in place, they do not move.
TOM
John, your a psycho.
But ya know what? It looks great. So what if it takes you 3 months to apply all those teeny weeny decals it just adds to the grace and beauty of your model
You poor thing. By now your eyes must be worse then mine by now. Shrinks don’t think about this thing before they suggest a hobby or they never would.[:P]