Another stunner, excellent work as ever! Also I mentioned to you a while back that Zvezda were releasing a 1/144 757 200. It's being released very soon so keep an eye out in the model stores!
That came out quite nice, really liked the oil exhaust work as well as those pipes. And another vote for the Silhouette tutorial. I have a Portrait 3 that I got just for this purpose.
The new Eduard decals may look "wide" in how the film is very glossy and broad, but they work as well as the best I have seen, settling down into Eduard's minuscule depressed rivets (using just micro sol over under, on matte paint with no gloss or polishing) with no issue. Above average adhesion, even when a bit of dishwasher liquid is added to the dipping water, as they tend to "stick" and not move around well. I never remove their film, but both the film and the left behind colour put up a fair fight against scratching off, which makes them more handling resistant than any other I have used. They never just flake off, even on matte paint.
I'll add that the tape pulling off the film trick seems to work very well on metal finishes, if you really melt them down and wait the prescribed 24 hours. The best way to do this is to lay the pulling tape without burnishing for a "weak" pull off, this will weaken the film on the first pull. Then burnish a new tape really well, and the film comes off really easy, with a few remaining clumps hanging loosely and easy to remove... On do this on metal finishes, as I fail to see the point on camo. The colours left behind are quite tough (!!!), even without the film...
Wash down your plastic after assembly with alcohol to clean any oils from your finger prints off and dust. Make sure you're mixing it before spraying. The only time I've had it peel off is when the surface wasn't clean
I sometimes use semi-gloss Tamiya or nothing at all. Just make sure your wash has a different base than your paint. IE acrylic wash on acrylic paint is a bad time. Enamel on lacquered okay.
@@TheModelGuy thanks mate for the answer and it will be a good benefit to see a big tutorial for silhouette how you make them and any possibility to share the files.?
Eduard decals suck, plane and simple. They need a kick in the nuts for moving away from cartograph. But they will never acknowledge their decals are not really that good.