Small Scale Military Headquarters

Since there's an almost complete lack of decals for 1/72 armor, unless you buy a kit just for the decals, I decided to use some aircraft decals. I went through my local hobby shop's decal box and bought the ones with art that caught my eye.

This is the first one I finished...



Removing the old markings was easy. A few rubs with a q-tip soaked in non-acetone fingernail polish remover and the "Booze Hounds" was gone. I washed with fresh water, cleaned the surface, coated with clear gloss lacquer, used micro sol and micro set, the applied dull coat lacquer after the decal had a chance to dry.

I still got a little silvering under the decal, but I'll add some weathering to cover that.

Very nice. 1/72 armor decals are made by several companies

Aleran decals, Archer decals, and Fingerprint Designs all make them and have a fairly comprehensive list. There are 1 or 2 more companies but I can't recall their names at the moment.

Not to nitpick, but neither Aleran nor Fingerprint do anything but WWII and Archer does OIF, but doesn't do ANY Vietnam era decals (and only Arabic decals for a 1/72 M113), so I stand by my original statement.

Very nice!

That's an Easy Model M113, right? Relatively affordable to experiment with Looks great - although I thought the original nickname of the track was pretty funny.

Yes, its an Easy Models M113.