A couple of things to report. First of all, I'm making my own masks for the fuselage markings. I started by scaling Sundin's profile to 1/48 in Adobe Illustrator and then created outlines for the Gruppe bar, Balkenkreuz, and the 16.
The file was then sent to my Cricut cutter and I made some vinyl masks. First though, the areas where the masks will be applied have been painted white with a drop of tan:
I'll let this cure over night before applying the masks. Also today, I tried to tackle the odd shaped spiral on the spinner. This one (see pics above) is thinner than most and so I located spiral in my decal spares that I thought might work, since it was longer than others. However, it was still a bit wide at the bottom so I used a french curve to cut it thinner using my scalpel.
It was when I first tried applying the decal that I realized that the spiral is not only thinner but also backwards! So I flipped the decal over, thinking immediatley that this wasn't going to work well but I continued anyway. Turns out that the decal had the wrong shape too as it needs to turn tighter. To continue, I cut the tip section free and applied a dose of Solvaset to make it sit but, as you can see below, the result is unacceptable.
It's back to the drawing board for this one. I've sanded the spinner back down to bare plastic and will paint it white and then apply some bendy tape masks to try it that way. Back tomorrow with some more. Thanks for looking in and for your continued interest.