Thanks Peter, the reason I thought it was decorators tape was it seemed very wide compared to my 6mm Tamiya.Mostly Tamiya tape John, with a couple of bits of the orange Badger tape as well, as it was just the width I needed.
The cockpit masks were P-Mask vinyl masks, but it still took a couple of hours to fit them all. The canopies came out well, the wheels not so much.
Pete
You're excused Rick. It's a collection of vintage & classic aircraft, cars, motorbikes, buses, steam engines, and more. Usually two Sea Hurricanes there as well a a Spitfire. Not much from your side of the pond though! Have a drool here: https://www.shuttleworth.org/Hi Pete, Pardon my "Yankee" ignorance....what is the Shuttleworth collection? BTW that splinter job came out great! Rick H
Looking great pete , I agree on both counts - Hundreds of tiny stencils are a pain to apply , but they do really make a massive difference to the look of a model , cheers tonyI've nearly finished gluing bits on, so started the decals.
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Airfix provide lots of stencils, but the decal placement diagram doesn't show where they go! I made a start, trying to identify the stencils on the decal diagram, but some just aren't visible.
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Emailed Airfix to ask if they have a separate diagram for the stencils. Then I found a review of the kit on the IPMS USA site, which mentioned a separate stencil placement diagram... The kit comes in a top opening box, and I'd placed the box inside the inverted lid... can you guess what was in the lid?
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Oh well, I've gotmostsome of them in the right place!
Just 62 more to go now. These tiny stencils can be really frustrating and difficult to handle, but they seem to bring the model to life.
Thanks for watching
Pete
Going to need a lot of scraping. (Yes Ron, I know! )
Pete
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