I am working on a Kinetic 1/32 F-86 I rescued from the Shelf of Doom. I’ve actually gotten to the decal stage and was putting on the yellow/black fuselage stripe when guess what: it shattered. Damn.
I found the old Cutting Edge Sabre Stencils sheet for sale from The Fine Art of Decals. Has anyone ever ordered from them? I don’t want to plunk down the $30 and get screwed.
Thanks.
Michael
I haven’t myself but that is Mr Cutting Edge, Dave Klaus’s site.
Wondered about that. I had kind of a run-in with him some years back and he black-balled me. Wonder if he’d remember?
Michael 
Dave like many other decal manufacturers are a different bunch of folks so hard to say the length of grudge they hold. Might depend on the offense.
I bought his Pyn-Up decals for Dick Bong’s P-38. Excellent decals, but in a post somewhere I pointed out that there were no directions or indications for what to do with the right side of the nose. Guess he didn’t like that. C’est la guerre.
Michael
Microscale makes a liquid decal film which I have used to preserve fragile decals. I usually pick a decal from the kit (or other) sheet and sacrifice it to determine how fragile they are. If t hey seem to need it, I apply the liquid decal film.
That’s what I should have done. Too late now.
I spent yesterday afternoon masking the heck out of things and am going to try to paint them on. I have a bad habit of laying on the white too thick, and will try to avoid that this time, but painting it over bare metal is not something I’m looking forward to.
Michael 
Bare-Metal foil? Wipe it down with 90% isopropyl or ethyl alcohol (Everclear™) before painting. Don’t soak the surface. If this is going on thicker metal, sanding the surface with 2000-2500 grit or finer, and clean it before painting. I’ve never tried to sand Bare-Metal foil. Good luck!
I’m using Alclad, and it actually went pretty well. The big problem was that I used the wrong shade of yellow at first. But it’s easier to paint yellow over yellow, so that’s fixed. Getting ready to mask off for the black now. And then… fixing the overspray areas. Sigh.
Michael
I have tryed the very nice Vallejo glossy PU varnish as base and coating for my decals , that went very easy with the brush and additional GLAZE and thinner.
The self designed 262 decals ( printed by decalprint in germany ) got a small damage at the yellow color from MIG decal fix .
Yes, I’ve ordered from FAoD (Dave Klaus) several times. Great products and service.
Do you mean the same company ?
I don’t know a guy called Dave Claus , but the service at decalprint is very good, yes !
For those interested in the outcome of my little issue, here it is:
Stipes painted on in (close to) the right shade of yellow and overspray areas touched up. Now, hopefully, back to trying to decal it. Thanks for the ideas and support!
Michael
Nice recovery.
