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<FONT FACE="Tahoma" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE">Thanks, Dave. Thanks to D also for the ideas.<BR>
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However, I also had trouble with the white and my overpainting made it look like crap. I'll have to carefully sand down the roundels (without effecting the camo) and redo.<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Dave Calhoun<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:53:54 -0500<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">Hi Matt,<FONT FACE="Tahoma" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR>
<FONT FACE="Arial"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="10">Sorry for posting 5 days later but I've been too busy to read my digests lately... anyway a solution to the Americal Gryphon white is simple - I mixed up a bottle of red with a little black until it matched the Americal decals perfectly - I put a spot of my mix next to the roundel on the sheet and let it dry until I got a pretty close match. A fine brush and paint properly thinned will allow you to hand paint the red portion of the roundel where the white shows through and get an almost perfect red circle. a coat of dull will seal it and blend it in with the red ink. I have done this in 1/48 scale, should be able to do it with the 1/72 scale decals as well.<FONT FACE="Tahoma" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE"><BR>
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Matt!<BR>
> I never liked the way the upper-wing, top roundels came out. I want to<BR>
> replace them, somehow.<BR>
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Ah, the dreaded red circle ghost on the Americal decals, right? I recall <BR>
that applying a second decal on them was one of the advices given at the <BR>
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> No idea, but unfortunately it appears so.<BR>
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We should be certain of its fate by January 1st,2008, 00:00. No later!<BR>
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