Well I haven't posted here for awhile, I've been busy buying a house and retiring the last 18 months. I've been busy lately though at my modeling bench so I got interested in this F-86D I started months ago. It wasn't the fantasy build I thought it was going to be that's for sure and I think that's why I lost interest in it the first time maybe. There is lots of filing and cutting off locating pins. For the most part things fit together ok. I used all the Eduard aftermarket cockpit stuff that was available all the rest is
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The kit decals have a flat finish which seemed odd to me especially since it is a NMF for the paint. I never had any good luck with flat finish decals over NMF surfaces, the stenciling always looks real bad with the flat finish so I looked for some
aftermarket decals. Found some that Zotz makes.....no stenciling.....I ended up spraying some clear gloss over the kit decals and that helped, also helped that the kit decals turned out not to be to bad of quality.