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Hi Ho Silver... I used almost four sheets of decals (the Hiroseki sheets do come in four flavours with different coloured logos and different Japanese numbering symbols) and this meant I could easily demark the three different detachments by colour (especially as I'm not very familiar with Japanese symbols...). Sadly - and unusually - they suffered from a degree of 'silvering': the decals obviously managed to get air under them via some method (which is how the silvering always occurs) even though I used both Micro-sol and Micro-set brush on decal fluids to get them to stay down over complex curves and shapes (forcing them into tight spaces with a cotton bud). I've not had this problem before with decals over varnish or Future (and the decals that Jim already had on there had not suffered from this problem either). I can only concur it was down to the (by now pretty complex) multiple coatings that the vehicles were covered with. I did some scraping with a scalpel to tidy them up, rewashed them with Future with a tint of black  in it (which took down the starkness of the white which was a good thing anyway) and moved on. With two lots of symbols - Jim's and now mine - these did represent some of the most decal covered vehicles I've ever seen! I did some more paint tidying up: Jim had used some sort of tan coloured fibre as rolled and stowed camo-nets on a few vehicles which had, of course, gone completely black with the attention of the tinted Future dip. I dry- brushed these back up to their previous colour. . .

Hiroseki Redux: working on the forces of the late Jim Clark