Scale Model Tips - Testing Walthers Solvaset Decal Setting Solution 

Happy birthday! As always really appreciate everything you do for the community.

Hey Rex, Chris here.......Happy Birthday buddy!!!!!! Love ALL of these review tests that U do,........very helpful for us builders, just want 2 let U know it's much appreciated, please keep them coming as well!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday... thanks for all the awsome videos you do for us... you really go above and beyond to cover all the products out there..

Happy birthday to you, sir. I must say that I been watching some of your old videos and I've been learning a lot from your techniques, you are a Guru on your stuff. Looking forward on more reviews and color shifting paints XD

Happy birthday ! Hope you had a wonderful day. Thank you for all the. content. You got me into painting my gunpla back again 💪

Another great vid my friend. Decals have always been my nemesis but this will help no end. Happy birthday mate. Look forward to the next vid .

I used to do a bunch of custom painting on railroad models back in the late 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s. I used Solvaset during all those years, but eventually I started using Microscale’s micro sol or micro set (I’ve forgotten which is weaker!) to position the decal, then blot it off and hit it with the Solvaset. Always vastly preferred applying decals over a gloss surface, then dull coat and weather over it. My preference was always Scalecoat enamel paint. After nearly a 30 year absence, I’m easing back into the hobby at the tender old age of 62, and the changes in the hobby in general, and the painting part specifically, are profound! I’m actually surprised that Solvaset and microsol & set are still available! I’m still in the intimidated stage over airbrushing water based paint, but we’ll see how it goes! Good video!

Happy Birthday Rex.....Thank you for ALL the info you bring to the modelling community.....Liverpool, England

I really needed your advice. Really nice presentation for this newbie.

Happy Birthday! And thanks for all your videos.....

Happy Birthday! I recommend pipetting some of the Solvaset into a smaller bottle to work with. I knocked over a full bottle once and decided to never do that again. About a week ago I mentioned doing a test of masking tapes and today I found that a cheaper brand of tape that I bought on sale left yellow staining behind when left overnight on white paint. I will try fixing it with white overspray. I will stick (pun intended) with Tamiya tape, which seems predictable.

Watching this a day late but Happy One Day Late Birthday my friend. Always looking forward to your videos!!

happy bday rex have a great and ty for the great vids

Awesome stuff and Happy Birthday

You sir are awesome! Happy Birthday to you, hope your day is wonderful. As always, thank you for the fantastic, always educational, videos.

Happy birthday my good man, many happy returns for a prosperous and healthy year

Great stuff BR love it

Happy birthday many more ,been watching you you have taugth me alot

Happy Birthday Rex!

happy belated birthday. I've been a modeler since the 1070s and have been using Solvaset almost as long. But I use it in a 3 part system: Micro Set, Micro Sol, and finally Solvaset. I always let the decal solution do it's thing, then lightly work out any air with a Q tip which also helps to set and settle down a decal which is why any clear decal film shows some silvering in your test. Also, never let any decal solution left to puddle around the decal as it will stain and and or damage the paint which is also around all the decals which really show on the darker surfaces. I've also been decaling for many years without a gloss application on any type of model paint Just make sure that the paint surface is smooth.

Happy Birthday. Mine is June 11. I like Walther's Solvaset.

Happy birthday dude!

YES, it's excellent stuff... 💪🏼😎

Hey.......................Thanks for another great objective product review.

Happy Birthday bro!!!

Happy birthday 🥳!

Happy Birthday from Germany. I hope you had a nice day.

Thanks for adding Solvaset to your decal setting solution reviews. Interesting that there is now no brush. All my purchases over the years had the nylon brush inside the cap. Using a "real" brush is probably better for almost all setting solutions anyway. I do mostly railroad and some military and I have had generally good results from Solvaset. The only problem that I have run across is that sometimes a drop of Solvaset will be missed on top of a multicolor logo decal and the strong solution can cause a "blowout" where the color layers of the decal bleed in one spot. By the way, thanks for the recommendation on Tamiya Mark Fit Strong. I have added it to my tray of decal solutions and I have been getting good results on train models. Happy Birthday, best wishes for many more. Lastly, I use a few of the Abteilung 502 paints for weathering. They are regular oil paints but they come in a neat little tube with a small brush attached to the lid. Quite convenient.

Happy B Bay! We told you Walthers Solvaset kills it...that bottle should last you 10 years 🤘😂

Happy Birthday! Mine is on the 7th this month.

Happy birthday!

Hello Rex,late happy brithday.Feels good to make it another year does it not...lol.Most train builders use the solvaset,I have been useing this product for 17 years and trust it more then all the others.

Loved watching your video! But can you use the solvset on glass with waterslide decals? And is it water proof? I want to make shot glasses for a party and would like guests to be able to take them home to use as well, but only if they will hold up. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond.

Would you recommend adding the solution to the top and bottom of larger decals ? I am about to start on the aztec decals for my 1/350 Enterprise refit.

happy birthday!

Rex, belated happy birthday. Great job yet again. How would you rank the Walthers against the solutions in you previous test? I will buy something on your recommendation (e.g. MicroMark sprue cutters which I love) and then you test other items and don't always state how it compares with previous items recommended.

Hope you had a great Birthday !!!! Have a great day ! Tony

happy b-day rex

I'm sooo jealous 😫 we can't buy Finishers in UK... Happy Birthday friend!!

Never tried TS 80 but TS 13 gloss spray by Tamiya with the combination of markfit is fantastic. I had some old Zvezda decals and I put them over some cast texture witch I made with mr surfacer for a really good effect. After I sealed the decals in with TS 13 lacquer I sprayed some acrylic based flat topcoat from Mr hobby. All this products with no interaction and a perfect finish. The decals was german crosses witch had a painted on effect, now it looks like I painted them myself.

So, is this going to replace MarkFit, which I beleive is your current goto solution?

Great work as always and happy birthday! Have you ever tried to print your own decals with decal paper? Would love to see how that’s done.

at 27:12 I can see the the clear part of the decal between the stripes and I can see stain drops left behind from the decal solution.

Thanks for doing the test. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find anyone in Canada who sells it. ☹️ I held my breath every time you reached for the decal tray… if that was me, I would have knocked over the Solvaset bottle. 😂 Go Sox!

Rex witch decal water dipper did you like the most? This one or the one from master tools (Trumpeter) witch you have previously used?

This will melt ICM decals and Miniart decals also just for a heads up

Appreciate the videos. Really helped me with my model making.. Easton, pa needs a good hobby store sux here

Cheers 🍻🍰🎊

A word of Caution about this, it will Burn the Ink of the certain brands of Decals such as Super Scale into the paint of the model. Back in the 1980's when Monogram added a White Goo in the Decals, everyone hated it and they would not settle. I found that if you wash off the Goo, you can put the Decals down and get them settled down.

Love to see those Italeri paints there! Btw did you buy their thinner? Its milky and I belive its latex based like the paints if not I think you can use Vallejo's thinner. I would recomend you to use Vallejo flow improver while testing the Italeri's because they dry really quick. Hope you had a nice birthday Rex.

i want to checkl the Finsher out my self i live in Germany.

Happy Bithday

WHITE VINEGAR IS WHAT I USE TO SET MY DECALS: IT WORKS FOR ME!

22:13 Bawston.

Other versions of the decal station comes with scissors. Micro marks doesn’t for whatever reason.

if its cheaper I'd get it if you wanted to save money but I believe tamiya would be better

Pronounced *Car-toe-graff*

:):):):) Pronounced abtielung, or abtylung...:):):)

Dude why don’t you make your own hobby tools. Ide buy them instead of shirts!

30 minutes to explain how to use a product to apply decals, I'd rather stick with the usual ones.

Why EVERYONE; BUT ALL model makers who do comparisons of fluids for decals, as a surface on which they will test various setting and solvent solutions, take a flat piece of wing or fuselage of an airplane where the only "obstacles" for snug fit decals are a couple of panels and ten rivets??! Why doesn't anyone take, for example, a 1/35 part of the tank model, painted and gloss coated (or prepared with Future Wax for floors) i.e. turret with closed side hatches on German PzKpfW lll or lV tanks and show how these fluids overcome serious bumps, because if decal setter and solvent in such places ensure the appearance of the numbers as if they were "drawn", then such products really work wonders! Therefore; more relief and more painted plastic (both acrylic and enamel or lacquer type) so let's see..

Happy birthday!