building the hasegawa 1/32 scale p-47d - mike ashey productions ...

The fuselage, cowling and propeller all got two coats of
Minwax clear gloss polyurethane. Now its time to
start decaling.
I used my Waldron punch tool to make a hole in one of the
wing decals for the wing light.
Each letter on the fuselage was carefully positioned to make
sure it was straight and level. Having a gloss surface
allowed me to slide the decal around without damaging it.
To help minimize decal silvering I cut out the letters
separately and I also removed as much of the clear carrier
film as possible.
The kit decals wrinkled up really bad when I applied decal
set solution. They did finally lay down although I had to
press out some of the wrinkles. I then applied more
setting solution.
Once all the decals were applied I gave the model a coat of
Testors clear flat. The paint colors showed through the white
areas of the insignia decals.