Thanks Checkmate,
I had intended to use the MicroSet as I always had good luck with it when I was building my model trains. But after your experience , I will now use water to set the decals.I will post a picture when I have one completely done. Do you play chess?
Regards,
Earl
“Fair winds and following seas,” with your nautical modeling experiences!
As for chess, I used to dabble in it in junior high (loooong ago). And wasn’t very good at it, besides.
“Checkmateking02” comes from “Combat!,” the old TV show from the '60’s with Vic Morrow and Rick Jason.
Wow, Combat was my favorite show when I was a teenager. Too bad about Vic, that was a terrible way to die. I used to play until my friends who played, passed away.
I built a lot of those stick models when I was a young kid. They were a lot of fun, I’m surprised that my family and myself survived all of the dope( paint ) back then.
“Combat!” lives on, in DVD. I collected all the season several years ago as they were released–still holds up after all these years; good scripts and acting with only a few clunkers throughout the show’s run.
I agree about Vic Morrow; Rick Jason too. He fatally shot himself one night (suicide). Still, their influence lives on. Last year I bought myself an airsoft AEG Thompson submachine gun sort of like Sergeant Saunders carried (although it’s an M1A1, not a 1928 model). It wreaks havoc on aluminum cans and plastic bottles!
My mother never let me have a toy one when I was a kid, so I’m compensating.
I did not know about Rick Jason, what a shame. I will have to check Amazon to see if they have the DVD’s.
Earl
They’re still available and better than ever. I still occasionally build one. They went from having to cut out ribs and formers from the sheetwood yourself, to die-cut, to now laser cut which works much better than the die-cut, especially at the time in the run when the dies start getting dull 
Don,
I saw on the news that you were buried with 19" of snow!! I like the PBY which they now have in their line and I saw it built without the covering at a hobby shop in Atlanta. Very impressive, I may have to look into it.
Best regards and keep that snow where you are.
Earl
Don’t worry much about the perfect paint job because regular brush painting will do fine.No one can’t see through the cockpits and most of the clear molded aircraft are molded wrong or not to the exact scale.At a contest I seen judges eyes almost pop out looking at these very small models.One day I will super detail one of these small clear micro planes w/ open cockpits and engines.HA!Ha!.
Also you can make on decal paper on lt blue background w/ micro lines drawn on to the blue and seal w/ Gloss then after drying cut out the small pattern and apply on.It worked for me on my 1/350 Yorktown.1st.Place every time coming from an aircraft modeler.
Thank you for the tip Silver. Who makes the Yorktown which you built? That carrier has a lot of history and it would be neat to build a model of it.
Earl
It’s my scratch build.Its a couple of notches on the Ship Modeling.Sheet plastic makes good models.Current Ship models are good to build .
Trumpeter makes a 1/350 Yorktown on Ebay.
Silver,
So you do a lot of scratch building then? Where do you get the plans for them? Is their a ship magazine such as for armor and aircraft?
Thanks for all of your help, it is greatly appreciated!
Earl
I tried to mask the cockpit with Micro Mask, then first primed with black and then with white. After that I handpainted the other colours.
When you prime black first the cockpit look so much more realistic.
Even as I had some problems with paint loosening (due to bad primer in to thick layers, I think), the result is promesing.
//Antesyd