Thanks Kirby. Unfortunately we can't say the same of the decals as I had a setback here.
After combing through my decal stash, I decided to use a combination of decals from Eagle Strike and Eagle Cals. My first decal to be applied was an Eagle Cal fuselage cross. It had an RLM 74 background that matched exactly the colour that I had already applied so I decided to use these rather than mask and paint the 74 background and apply the plain white cross. After applying the decal and my usual careful Solvaset solution, I went ahead with the upper wing crosses for which I used Eagle Strikes. The latter behaved beautifully but when I went back to see what was going on with the fuselage cross, I noticed that the edges of the decals were curling in and UNDER the decal. I never had that happen to me! I therefore made a quick decision to pull the decal off using masking tape. Unfortunately, it didn't come off cleanly and some of the underlying paint also came with it while some of the decal stubbornly stayed in place.
I sanded the area with a micromesh pad to get the rest of the decal off and to smooth out the edges of the removed paint as best I could, though some of the weren't co-operating.
The black band was then masked (third time!) and RLM 76 was resprayed:
Then the 75 mottles were added:
...as was the 74.
I then measured up and cut a mask for the cross background. The inner edges aren't quite even but that's OK since these will be hidden by the decal.
Finally, the cross background was sprayed and another gloss coat applied. I went extra heavy on the part where the paint edges didn't feather in nicely and once the gloss is dry, I will give this a light sand to even out the surface.
I'm curious if anyone else has ever seen a decal behave like that and what, if anything could be done about it. I bought the sheet for my unbuilt 109K-4 and am now leery about using it.