This airliner model is a testbed for re-decaling and restoring a project which didn't go too well in the first round. The original Minicraft kit had Scandinavian Airlines System decals, which were unfortunately aged and fractured beyond my capabilities. Plan B was a fictional USAF cargo plane with various leftover decals, but that didn't turn out too satisfying either. In the end I removed the decals altogether and put the painted but otherwise blank model aside for a while.
By chance I found this nice looking Two Six Alitalia "new livery" sheet and decided to try it, being a laser print it was a good subject for testing a recently acquired Micro Liquid Decal Film bottle as well.
I think the decals were a bit easier to handle with the Liquid Decal Film, Two Six lasers tend to be almost robust enough as is but it's nice to know that I've got something to help with F-DCAL lasers sheets in the future. This re-decaling was at least modestly succesful, I like the Alitalia livery and if not a perfect model from a clean build I'm still quite happy with this result. Well, actually I don't like the way Two Six does the cabin windows with "painted-in" reflections but nevermind...
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