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As I look at the pictures - seems that 737-800 is more like slightly tilted forward while MAX sits straight. Main gear seems same but maybe close up walkaround photoes needed. Actually the discussion raises a question - why Boeing never wanted to extend gear length of 737? It was okay on the first 737s with thin engine flushed onto the wing. On the Classic and NG series they had those egg-shaped intakes on engine nacelles. Here they preferred to move engines up and forward. A320 has visibly longer undercarriage and experiences zero troubles with larger engines... @Skodadriver a superb MAX! Looks very good, Authentic decals add +500 to realism of the model

That's a very neat Thunderjet and the ROC markings fit is very very well!

Hold on guys, I think I missed the point here. Do I understand right that RS models is issuing late reconnaissance Lightning with Academy plastic and conversion parts? That is a very interesting and great idea and I'm very interested now to get a kit!

Have you seen the faces of Team Sulc?

Continuing to try fixing decals issues: Quite okay with the yellow band. Also after couple more coats of red diluted with creamy yellow I think I got closer to the decal colour. Probably not worth trying more. I will also grease the tail area with touch of smokey weathering which will hopefully mask some paint mismatch. As you can see I also attached the stabiliser. A fiddly construction I should report!!!

Stencils would go fine. Letter codes too. For opacity - I have an understanding that this is just not consistent. For example white colour on Israeli markings and white colour on squadron cocards seem to be different. On squadron cocards it looks denser. But large colourful decals... Seems Special Hobby just saved some Krones on printing good paint layer. Maybe it's not the weakness of the technology.

@Lightningboy2000 yeah I posted to my Streak thread. Final result not good at all... I'm planning to repaint at least the tail stripe. Next time I just know I should paint such complex surfaces and forget about this Eduard crap. Stencils and simple decals work okay. But that works okay with almost every decal...

Hi folks, I finished my super-duper Eduard peel-off decals on my Thunderstreak and my general conclusion - look for aftermarket replacements or just paint what you need whenever possible. Problems: - VERY poor opacity. Just totally poor. It looks fine on overall metal aircraft but should you try to apply roundels to a camouflaged aircraft - it will not work. Also if you apply roundels to something like EDSG - your red will likely disappear. And I do not speak about white. - They are too thin. On complex surfaces they disintegrate into super small pieces. No chance to restore. Like zero. - film might be a problem. In some cases it just starts to peel off unintentionally and of course with pieces of paint. - some decals do not fit to shape. That is not uncommon problem though but here it is aggravated by bad opacity and thinness. Again on my Streak decals worked fine in 95% of cases. But in 5% that is just a disaster. So hope Eduard and Special Hobby stop the stupid experiment and return to normal decals.

Well... I've done it. In general I can say that these new "Eduard-peel-it-off" decals could be worked fine. Stencils and smaller elements that are transferred to flat surfaces do not pose that big problems. But some decals ended up in a disaster: First of all this. Tail tube red stripe. On the photo it is after some intensive care measures applied. Basically overpainted with red colour. This decal just disintegrated. It did not match the shape. Too wide, and Special Hobby made it with two cutouts which obviously did not work. Film self-peeled off the decal in course of application taking some colour with it of course. The result is still bad because red colour from the jar just did not match. I'll try mixing with grey to make it more dull and try to cover see through effect because red colour has poor opacity. Second this: I think I placed this stripe to the correct position so that cutout matches with the dorsal fin light. Also it looks correct compared to the available photoes. And if moved further back there would be just no space for the David Star. But... unfortunately this decal turned out to be too short. I plan to maybe cut piece of yellow stripes for other variants to close the gap and paintbrush black sides... On top fuselage there is also a small imperfection which I would probably just overpaint. Last thing - opacity is VERY poor. Look at the beige decal on the tail that was supposed to represent overpainted French Tricolor. No comments I'm thinking if I should consider that as a feature rather than a bug or overpaint with similar grey...

Thank you @jovapad ! I plan to fully complete this bird on the weekend. One big thing remains - scratching the pitot tube and inserting it to the airflow splitter in the intake. Super-finely-careful hole drilling is the challenge here to make sure a thin pitot tube holds there finely.

That is a superb news!!! (not for my wallet and stash space)

One thing I just figured out - hold on, where are the Musketeer identification stripes for the wings in Special Hobby decals set??? No decals, no mentioning to paint it. I understand consistency of identification marks application was not always on par. But there is enough French Streaks photoes with stripes on wing. Hmmmm.... I also know that there are only two poor photoes of the machines in Israeli markings - both are made from the side so hard to say if the stripes are there on the wing. Well... okay... let's think these were not really applied to the machines located in Israel. But that is quite unfortunate miss by Special Hobby. At least these should be available as optional decals or mentioned as option to paint.

I examined the decals applied last week and yes looks like they do tend to detach in some difficult places such as wing trailing edge. A drop of Mr.Softer seems welded it back reliably. And yes I feel if I wait too much Mr.Softer would just destroy the paint. Huh... Special Hobby kits are becoming problematic with these decals! I do not need that much Eduard kits though but Special Hobby makes a lot of what is in my area of interest! Hopefully there will always be some aftermarket sheets with nicer decal options...

Yeah... I've no idea why Eduard and Special Hobby would decide to change for such weird decal type. There is plenty of fine decalmakers around. Techmod used by Sword is very good. I think this is Polish firm. There were AVIprint decals in MPM kits before. Nothing to complaint about either. And I can understand why these new decals would peel off - because there is no glue between film and paint. Also the fact they detach from paper like in half-second also suggests there is no glue. Should I try peeling off the stuff? Or give a good solvent run?

It seems like the Wasp kit arrived to big H but was sold out immediately. A small number of Scouts is still in stock I hope LF has more in stock.