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You can use painted decals instead masking cockpits and for adding small details. There is a simple method avoiding all the trouble with masking cockpits! As I found a lot of problems masking cockpits i tried another approach: All you need is a transparent decal sheet, the "magic" Klear/Future. You paint or airbrush a small sheet of transparent decal - best with acrylic colors. Be careful if you use a paintbrush and enamel colors - it may dissolve the surface of the decal! The Layer of paint should not be too thick - else the decal gets to stiff. After drying you cut off small stripes of the painted decal. I would recommend to apply Future at the clear parts of the cockpit. After removing the decal strips from the backing paper with a small paintbrush and a little bit of Future you apply these on the cockpit. Carefully remove excess water. The He111 has a real challenging Cockpit! Here some pictures of my 1/72 Revell/Hasegawa Heinkel He 111 Bomber which crashed from 2 m height. The Cockpit broke in to parts - now repaired. You can add also some details on your model The windows of the little steam boat are printed on a decal Here a view of the small steam boat. For the windows I painted a transparent decal with the brown color of the aft compartment and printed it with the laser printer. It is a simple and easy way to add some details. At least easier as to drill out the tiny windows. But you must consider that there must be a big contrast between the base color and the laser printed color. Here you can see the difference between a normal decal (Caterpillar label) and the painted decal (perforated front) - In this case I used a common self adhesive paper label painted yellow and than printed with a laser printer, than cut to the right shape. It is thicker than a decal and gave a more realistic impression! Hope these are useful tips to improve your models. regards Andreas
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Forget masking cockpits There is a simple method avoiding all the trouble with masking cockpits! All you need is a transparent decal sheet, the "magic" Future. You paint or airbrush a small sheet of transparent decal - best with acrylic colors. Be careful if you use a paintbrush and enamel colors - it may dissolve the surface of the decal! The Layer of paint should not be too thick - else the decal gets to stiff. After drying you cut off small stripes of the painted decal. I would recommend to apply Future at the clear parts of the cockpit. After removing the decal strips from the backing paper with a small paintbrush and a little bit of Future you apply these on the cockpit. Carefully remove excess water. Here some pictures of my 1/72 Revell/Hasegawa Heinkel He 111 Bomber which crashed from 2 m height. The Cockpit broke in to parts - now repaired. The He111 has a real challenging Cockpit! the engine is still broken off. Hope you find this tip useful! Cheers! Andreas
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