Repairing a slight rip

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Decaling
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Last night I experimented with using Micro Set for the first time to see how good this product is. I had done a test run on a scrap kit and I have to say I’m impressed. I loved how it can soften and conform to the notches and such on wings.

My dilemma:

I was working on decalling my P-51 Mustang and I sort of got a little impatient in hurrying to get the star and bar decal to conform on the top wing with little notches. So I poked tiny holes in 2 places around said notch and tried to push them down to conform with it. Needless to say it ripped and it looks kinda messed up a bit. My thought is cut a small piece of the blue area and place it where the rip is. Would it work? Or should I remove the decal and replace with another? I don’t have extras of same size for the wing of a 1/48th scale kit. I do have extras from a P-47 Thunderbolt but it’s the side decal star and bar.

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Update -

Last night I managed to fix my little rip in the decal by cutting a small section of decal using it from another kit. It came out quite well to my surprise actually. The extra decal was from the P-47 Thunderbolt kit I had just finished last week or so.

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I have patched bad spots quite a few times with this method. Works fine. If the rip or tear is very small I sometimes find the closest match paint and daub a little over the tear with the tip of a toothpick.

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Little repairs like this are an excellent chance to practice paint-matching skills. And if it doesn’t match exactly, you can call it flak damage.[:D]