Quick Question, need a Quick Answer

[tigeraid]

So the customer brought the Camaro SS back (see COMPLETED WORKS) and wasn't happy with the stupid Revell t-top decals. Can't say I blame her, it's the only part of the car I wasn't happy with either, but she only gave me 2 weeks to build the car box-stock.

Anyway... I've never used decal setting solution before--will applying it on top of the bubbly decal help me flatten it out, or is it too late? If so, I'll carefully peel this decal off and probably grab one from another Camaro kit and put it back on... if I do THAT, do I apply the decal setting solution first?

[David Napier]

Have you laquered the decal? If you havent I'd try the decal solution, nothing to loose really, you might need to prick the air bubbles 1st though

[freakray]

Did you read what I posted in your thread in the Completed section?

[tigeraid]

Originally Posted by David Napier

Have you laquered the decal? If you havent I'd try the decal solution, nothing to loose really, you might need to prick the air bubbles 1st though

No, no clearcoat... I'm hoping the LHS has some decal solution...

[freakray]

Originally Posted by tigeraid

No, no clearcoat... I'm hoping the LHS has some decal solution...

I thought you were a hobby store?

[tigeraid]

Originally Posted by freakray

I thought you were a hobby store?

Sure am. And I need decal solution right about now, not in the 3-5 business days it would take to ship it from a supplier

[freakray]

Did you go back to your completed model thread and read what I advised on the decal.

[tigeraid]

No sir I did not, that was the night I left to go up North, my fiance's aunt got in a car accident, ended up dying on Christmas Eve. Yet another reason why the Camaro model was rushed...

I bought the decal solvent and will try to salvage the t-tops tonight.

[blubaja]

Why don't you just paint the T tops?

[tigeraid]

Originally Posted by blubaja

Why don't you just paint the T tops?

Because they're not THERE on the body. It's a hardtop. No panel lines, no nothing.

And again, had I had a month or two to build this, instead of 2 weeks rushing for Christmas, what *I* probably would've done is either scribe my own, or cut the t-roofs out entirely and make make them out of acetate, or kitbash t-tops from another kit...

Anyway, the decal solution worked good but the decal was battered, so I ripped open another Camaro kit and got another decal. I'll lay it out AND use the decal solution. Hopefully does the trick.

[willimo]

There was no molded in sunroof on this model, but a sunroof was painted in place. Call me crazy, but I don't expect a decal laying flat to magically scribe panel lines around a sunroof, or a t-top, any more than paint will.

[tigeraid]

I'm not sure I get your meaning... I'm not expecting it to magically scribe panel lines either, or paint. But the t-roofs have grooves in them, have a border around them.... Simply painting Tamiya Smoke over the gloss black that's there wouldn't really work... it'd look more like a see-thru targa top...

[tigeraid]

Well I'm a believer (excuse the dust) :



I'm gonna have to use this stuff more often!

[freakray]

Wow, the quality of that decal printing really sucks.

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by tigeraid

I'm gonna have to use this stuff more often!

I'm sure your customers will be grateful.