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H.I.S.S. Instructions:
The white vinyl-backed prints will look immeasurably
better if you protect them with a layer of packing tape.
Before you get started, just pull off enough from the
roll to cover the entire line, and apply over the
stickers. Rub out the air and use your nail to
smooth it out. That is important step number one. For the circular stickers, you
should take a circle stencil and draw perfect circles on
the reverse side of the stickers. I find the
easiest way to do this is against a window, drawing the
circles on the BACKING. This way, you've got a
nice guide to follow and cut them out perfectly.
Do this for the "3/63" and all the cobra sigils and then
cut out all your circles. Move slowly and don't
hold your breath. For the white-backed sigils you
are going to cut out square or in straight lines, cut as
close to the printed surface as possible. In the
case of the headlights, you want to cut those out ON the
lines.
Now for second important step number two. The
white-backed stickers are printed with a black
background that, once you gloss them with the packing
tape and apply to the black HISS, will simply appear to
be glossy clear stickers. The one thing that you
must do to every sticker being applied to the black
areas is take a black sharpie marker and line the edge
of the sticker. Hold the sticker by the front and
back and use the side of the marker tip to quickly go
around the edge. If you hold the sticker so the
tip slips off onto the backing and not the front, if you
do slip, you will only mark the back and not the sticker
front. You MUST do this step because the white
vinyl is white all the way through, and if you do not
black out the sticker edges they will show a super-fine
white line around the edge, the amount they are raised
off the vehicle.
Once you have done
the "blacking out" the stickers are ready to apply.
Smooth them on good and get out all the air. The
tape will protect them very well. Oh, and the last thing
you should do after the vehicle looks all nice and whiz
now is wax it. I did my mine with "Future" floor
wax after the stickers were applied and the thing looks
like it just rolled off the assembly line. Not
sure that any tank in combat would look that polished,
but doing that after my sticker application will give
you an enviable tank.
Here are some more pictures that buyer took and sent
me, and
here are some variants of the HISS. These come
on clear and you do not need to take any special steps.
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