Pete's BV141

[Guest]

Well, somebody thinks it's acetone and isopropanol.

True But it was about the only information I could find on a quick search.

Both of those are volatile so would evaporate over time, leaving perhaps water...

Micro Sol does evaporate — I had bottles of Set and Sol of which the caps cracked after a couple of years, and the contents did too, eventually.

I have heard that somebody successfully used Tamiya X20 thinners as a decal softener

That’s easy enough to try to see if it works. Not that this would be much cheaper than using Micro Sol, though, so it’d only be useful if you happen to have run out of actual decal softener.

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
You will be an expert at masking after this. The canopy looks very very fiddly. You seem to have sorted the camo. Old decals often present problems. I still reckon that this is up there with the weirdest aircraft ever produced.
Jim