Rob,
Try spraying the decal sheet with dullcoat before cutting them. This is
an old technique for bad decals and should hold them together.
Ken Martin
> Subject: Re: Grayback F unit color
>
> Decals. Hmmmmm. Let's see. I went through 8 sets of microscale before they
> curled so much I stripped the ABBA FTs down to thier plastic again.
> Microscale tells me that they had a bad run of RED ink. so all the new
> artwork sets are bad. They fracture in the water or on the shell.
> Remember Humpty Dumpty???
> And guess what? Decal saver doesn't help them either. It turns the red
> frosty, slightly less red than they should be.
> It's enough to make you model Penn Central.
> I have an older set without the porthole gaskets that I found that may
> work.We'll see but don't expect to see anything from me at Dubuque, I'm
> working on freight cars.
>
> Rob ManleySincerly,
> Rob Manley
> Midwest Mod-U-Trak
> "It's just that I love boxcars and I love to read the names on them like
> Missouri Pacific, Great Northern, Rock Island Line"
> On the Road----Jack Kerouac
>
>
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