...Because I never did before, in spite of having assembled Kibri vehicles in the past. But I purchased recently a Kibri Fuchs 301 "bagger" (cable excavator) to get the orange-peel grapple (mentioned in an previous post of mine - For the record, the grapple is nice, assembled easily enough, and looks good and operates well (if, unlike me, you don't accidently get some cement in the pivot, thereby reducing it's range of motion. Crud). I have to make an adapter to mate it with a New Holland Excavator.Anyway, the Kibri excavator is a nice little model, and still has the clam-shell bucket (the bucket and grapple are molded together on one sprue that Kibri could easily sell separately, hint-hint), so I figured I'd add it to my HO scale vehicles collection (things like 1950 GMC buses, Roco M88s, Athearn Model A's, CMW 1950 Plymouths; stuff that doesn't really fit an 21st century urban layout, but looks rather cool), I got it partly assembled (needs painting to hide the plastic sheen, although Kibri did get the red undercarriage, blue body & boom color scheme right in the molding), and looking on line (apparently the Fuchs 301 was a popular construction equipment item in the late 1950s-1960s, with over 15,000 constructed).All that said, having assembled several Kibri vehicle kits, I usually (read: Always) toss the Kibri stickers (I think they're stickers) and add my own decals/striping, but this time I figured I'd used the Kibri stickers since the warnings in German actually do make sense in this case.So...1) How long do they last? Do they fall off the usual hobby paint finish after a few years? Do they fade quickly?2) Do they react OK with dull-coat?
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I have applied Kibri's stickers to some of their structure kits. A lot of them peeled off and looked bad pretty quickly. Those that stayed on yellowed over time pretty significantly. They might work if you can more firmly arttach them to the model....
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trainnut1250 I have applied Kibri's stickers to some of their structure kits. A lot of them peeled off and looked bad pretty quickly. Those that stayed on yellowed over time pretty significantly. They might work if you can more firmly arttach them to the model....