David,

 

In spite of what has listed Greg does not have dry transfers any more. They
are all decals - at least for S Scale. It is possible he may have a few very
old stock dry transfers. Greg was long a fan of dry transfers. I much prefer
decals.

 

All decals and dry transfers suffer from age eventually. Dry transfers are
much more difficult to use if they are old. There are ways to use decal sets
that could be 50 years old but there is an amount of luck mixed in too. A
nice fresh set of decals is great to work with.

 

All I can say is get your paint as glossy as possible. Start out with water
only to float them out on the car until you get a sense of how thin they
are. Work your way up with different setting strength setting solutions
until the decal settles down. Don't leave any liquid sit in any quantity on
the decals. Literally tilt the car and blow off the excess. What remains
will do what needs to be done, or you give it a recoat later.

 

I have used water only more than once and did not get any air bubbles but
that film was **amazingly** thin. Any setting solution would have turned
them into blobs.

 

Thank You,
Bill Lane

Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1987

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