I was excited to see in the extra kit I bought to get a replacement canopy, it had the old decal set I remembered from the kit when I did it in the 80s. Lots more selection and definitely crisper, cleaner text and graphics.

That said, I didn’t want to put all the decals on I did back then. Wow, every single “no step” is there and more. When you put that many of that kind of thing on, it can start to look out of scale. It’s not thing thing you’d see from about 100 yards, about the distance you’re viewing it from when you’re looking at it from a meter or so away.

I did try to attempt to replicate a detailing technique I used to do back in high school where I’d sweep a wash of flat black and thinner across the model to make details pop. That was something I’d didn’t remember very well how I used to do it and it took me 4 tries of putting on different applications of it and removing it all again. Not a great experience, but satisfied for now with the finish I got. Dullcote evened everything out.

The flat black / thinner wash. Need to make this work better.