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I'm attempting to apply a fairly large decal along the side of car. It's a 1/18 scale car with a funky Fast and Furious style body kit. As it sits the car is painted with a flat black base coat. I'm getting the decal onto the car easy enough but even with setting solution it doesn't lay into the nooks and crannies without breaking. would a gloss coat help the decal move across the surface easier, or is it wise to cut the decal into smaller sections?

Yeah, after stripping the original paint I hit it with a coat of Duplicolor sandable primer to keep the metal from tarnishing while I worked on it. After reading up on how to properly prepare metal for paint, I doubt that primer will hold up by itself.

I started a die cast project a while back and have already done some styrene bodywork. I was wondering if a coat of self etching primer over the whole body will it have any adverse effects on the styrene and putty. Any advice about working with the combination of these materials is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Oooh! Squeaky clean indeed. Where would one pick up some aircraft stripper? I've been using "easy off" but that takes forever and never gets into all the nooks and crannies.