MORE modelling disasters!

[SebastianP]

I totally blew the decals on the F-2A I've been building - some of the more important ones moved completely out of alignment when I applied Mr Mark Softer, and deformed spectacularly when I tried to gently move them back. Don't have any spares, and aftermarket sheets are out of the question. I hate walkway stripes.

Basically, I have two options at the moment - finish it off without the walkway stripes and with slightly egg-shaped roundels, or strip the paint off and try to come up with a different scheme. Considering that this is one of a very few kits I've ever built where I've been totally happy with the job I did on the plastic, I'm pretty set against tossing it, though I nearly did so last night after the mess I made of it.

So, what do I do? I've still got three Hasegawa and Revell F-16 sheets in the right scale, which is plenty of decals for a US version. I'm just not sure I want to do it that way...

SP

[SimonR]

What were the decals you trashed? Maybe somebody has them at the back of their decal closet...

[SebastianP]

What were the decals you trashed? Maybe somebody has them at the back of their decal closet...

I'm not patient enough to wait around for replacements - easier then to get another kit and build this one as a whiff, or plain ignore that there ever was a disaster.

The actual decals I'm missing are number 19 and 20 on the "3rd Squadon" sheet in 1/72 - the rear fuselage walkways, the most complicated decals on the whole kit. I also managed to get one of the roundels behind the cockpit slighltly egg-shaped - enough to be definitely noticable...

Then again, I've also managed to future over some *huge* brushstrokes, which made them stand out like you wouldn't believe. That's almost grounds for stripping this kit right there...

SP