How to apply Eduard decals

On various modelling forums, in discussions, but also in messages from customers, there are repeated questions about “the new Eduard decals”, how to work with them, how to peel off the covering varnish film and what the decals actually are. In this article I would like to answer these questions and give the modelers a better understanding of how to work with these decals.

How to apply Eduard

decals

To peel, or not to not peel,

that is the question!

DECAL SET

Jakub Nademlejnský

On various modelling forums, in discussions, but also in messages from

customers, there are repeated questions about “the new Eduard decals”,

how to work with them, how to peel off the covering varnish film and

what the decals actually are. In this article I would like to answer these

questions and give the modelers a better understanding of how to work

with these decals. I'll start a bit broadly. Eduard started to use own decals

made by digital printing in their kits from about autumn 2019, after some

time my colleagues started to print the date on them, so all decals printed

after autumn 2019 are made by this technology. However, we still varnish

the decals using screen printing, on the same machine we used for

varnishing decals before the introduction of digital printing. The varnish

has also remained the same, we have just adjusted the film thickness

based on customer feedback to make the application more user-friendly.

Of course, digital printing has its advantages and disadvantages, for

example it allows us to print smooth colour transitions, which allows us

to print nice colours on pin-ups or small cartoons for example, but its

weaker side is colour saturation.

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February 2024