Then I went for broke on the snake motif............
This was not the original snake motif that I started off with. I had a Cutting Edge one and the decals were too old to use. I found this out after I tried applying one of the insignia on the top of the wings and the dang decal just started breaking up. God only knows what the snake decals would have done. I have mixed feelings about these Tally Ho decals I picked up. As far as decal adhesion, silvering and responding to Micro sol applications they are perfect. I believe the snake motifs are a tad bit too large for 1/48 scale but I'll work with it. They are shorter than the Cutting Edge decals that I had and subsequently fall short of the white band that I had painted. I made up the difference with a section cut from the Cutting Edge decals and spliced the snake to make it the rest of the 1/4 " way to the band. Now the problem is , and I didn't see this until AFTER I had applied the crosses on the side and AFTER I was applying the Micro sol to them, that the crosses are wider than the bands!!
You have GOT to be friggin kiddin' me here! There aint no way after all the work I've put into this paint job and decaling that I'm stripping that sucker back off now though. I was really ticked off at myself for allowing that to happen after all I've done to this thing but right now the only thing I can do is to press forward and build the best model out of this that I can and get over myself.
