Nearly There ...

Managed to get myself motivated again (well sufficient time to myself) and started to get the birds finished with their decals.  It's more years than I care to remember since I last used these things, they seemed to come off the paper backing fairly easily but getting them stuck on in just the right place was going to be a challenge I could tell.

I started with the Tomahawk for no other reason than it was the first sheet out of the box.  Getting everything properly spaced took a few attempts but I was fairly happy with the result, then came the shark mouth which was a bit more of a challenge and took some manoeuvring and tweaking to get just right (and then a little touch up to fill the small gap between  the two sides.  You'll notice that I've left the canopy off for now as I don't want to muck it up with any weathering bits and bobs or varnish, in fact you'll see it in the back ground of some of the photos.

Tomahawk done

So I thought that the Tomahawk was going to be the hardest of the two, but I may have just underestimated the Spit.  The decals were older and really didn't want to leave the backing paper and needed quite a soak.  But then I didn't know where everything should go as the box and instructions for this kit had long been discarded to the great recycling bin in the sky.  So google-fu in full effect and everything is at your fingertips.  That said I thought the side lettering looked to be quite far forward but the instructions looked to have them there so who am I to argue.

So that's them basically done if I wanted, but I don't!  I really want to get some weathering done on them.  Read a descent article here which I'll try and implement but this months budget doesn't allow any more modelling purchases, so these will have to go in to storage for a bit.  But once I've weathered them I'll bring out the proper camera (rather than my phone) and take some descent photos with a background and everything.

A final question for any more experienced modellers out there (so that's pretty much all of you), do you hit your kits with a flat coat once done?

a little bit of wobbly wheel action, but lessons learned in that department

Still think those Spitfire markings look too far forward