Roden decals

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Decaling
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Despite having nice 1/72 WWI airplane kits, Roden decals seem to be crap. Is anyone else having trouble with them? Are they all bad? And if so, where can I get sheets of the late WWI german crosses??

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Yeah I agree on their decals not always working, instead crumbling when you try to take the off the sheet. I bought some microscale liquid decal film to deal with it. You brush apply a coat over the decal, and it creates a new film to hold it together. Just make sure you trim very close to the edges when you cut it out or else you could have alot of extra clear film on the decal from the application of decal film

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Thanks, Darky-I’ll give that a shot!!

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The word on another message board is that Roden is aware of the problems with their decals and they are working to get better decals for their kits.

Just a rumor, but if true, it’s good news.

Regards,

-Drew

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I found that some of their sheet were fine, while others were just terrible. To see how good the sheet is, you can test it out on a decal of a scheme you dont want to use, but make sure its fairly large. If the decal falls apart use the decal film, if not go without it, or if you get paranoid like me, always use the decal film on roden decals now [(-D]

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Check out this thread over at the Aerodrom (www.aerodrome.com) messgae board:

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=13308&hl=

A fellow who works for Roden (and goes by the screen name Alex73) wrote:

So they really are working to get the decals looking good and working right.

Regards,

-Drew

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Thanks, Drew. I hope he’s right about the Gotha decals there’s an acre of 'em.