I've made some more progress on this model, one step forward and two steps back though.
I had almost finished this model and had it trapped between my knees while working on it and somehow it slipped out and fell nose first onto the tiled floor. This didn't do it any good, the cardboard sprung back into shape ok but the paint layer was badly cracked (see in third photo).
I made a fine file by gluing a strip of 400 grade wet and dry paper to a 5mm wide strip of plastic and filed down the damaged surface. I filled the damage with a couple of good applications of yellow acrylic paint, then rubbed those down with the file I'd made and finished with a coat of the same colour enamel I'd used originally. It now looks presentable.
In the second photo you can see I've started the numbering, I had a little problem with a couple of the waterslide overhead electric decals curling up and peeling, despite sealing them with Kleer. They are on quite thick decal paper and I suspect they weren't quite dry despite leaving them for over an hour as recommended in the instructions.
Personally I'm not a fan of this type of decal but it's all I could find.
So now I've nearly finished detailing, next some varnish, so more to come.
Roly
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