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Jimmaas · 6 February 2008, 07:21 PM

The bad news is, the checkers won't fit on the Eduard kit.

The worse news is, they wouldn't work even if they did fit. The starboard side decal is a mirror image of the port side. That's easy to do for the graphic artist that did the layout, but wrong. The starboard side should have been the a reversed mirror image of the port side, with black checks where the white ones are, and vice-versa. The way the decal sheet is done, you will have black checks on the top piece mating with black checks on the side.

There are some Microscale stock decal sheets you can find which have black checkers on clear decal film, although a close inspection of the Hippert D.VII indicates that top and bottom rows have checks that are elongated (not perfect squares) so even this wouldn't be a 'paste and trim' solution.

6 February 2008, 07:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jimmaas Observer Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Clifton Park, NY US Posts: 50	Aeromaster 'Mimmi' The bad news is, the checkers won't fit on the Eduard kit. The worse news is, they wouldn't work even if they did fit. The starboard side decal is a mirror image of the port side. That's easy to do for the graphic artist that did the layout, but wrong. The starboard side should have been the a reversed mirror image of the port side, with black checks where the white ones are, and vice-versa. The way the decal sheet is done, you will have black checks on the top piece mating with black checks on the side. There are some Microscale stock decal sheets you can find which have black checkers on clear decal film, although a close inspection of the Hippert D.VII indicates that top and bottom rows have checks that are elongated (not perfect squares) so even this wouldn't be a 'paste and trim' solution.