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Friday, November 28, 2014

I Hate Decals

I have been making some small headway on my X-wing.  I painted up the pilot (Luke himself) and then I applied the decals to his helmet and to the control panel in the cockpit.  I hadn’t applied decals since I was a teenager.  For my first decal, my 13 year old self resurfaced and I completely botched the job.  I didn’t trim the decal and it wouldn’t stick.  There is supposed to be a red strip on Luke’s helmet with a yellow patch at the front.  It’s now in the garbage.  I did a bit better job on the rest, but it’s a steep learning curve.

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The next step is to assemble the fuselage and do some priming.

As an aside, I have been getting some grief from my wife over my pronunciation of decal.  I pronounce it with a long e sound (deecal) while my wife pronounces it with a short e sound and hardly any a (decl).  She says I sound American and I say I don’t care.  How do you guys say it?

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