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I do double slits (two parallel lines about half a mm apart on all the diagonal lines as close to the actual design as I can get, and use Microsol and Microset. I find that the second cuts help it to wrap around the curves of a pauldron much more neatly.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I do double slits (two parallel lines about half a mm apart on all the diagonal lines as close to the actual design as I can get, and use Microsol and Microset. I find that the second cuts help it to wrap around the curves of a pauldron much more neatly.

I wonder if that works better than just cutting the carrier film off entirely like I do.

It would depend on the shape I'd have thought. An ultra marine symbol has a big hollow that can accommodate a lot movement, so your way would work better. When I did my iron warriors, I had to cut slightly into the design to create enough opportunity for the decal to mould to the curves and lie flat. The double cuts helped it spread in a way that I didn't then need to touch up anything with paint as there were no 'steps' where the cuts were.

If you zoom in on the pauldrons on this picture, you can see how flat they've ended up doing this;