I initially thought this was

I initially thought this was HO scale, although the era was a bit beyond mine I thought I would continue. I discovered it to be in n scale which did not seem to be of interest to me but kept reading because of the nice job that was done with the model and the article. I was even able to discover a trick I might use in the future.

Great job!

About scale ...

Nice article

I read with interest but I have a question. According to another source I read recently, and also Microscale's website, Micro Set is to be used while positioning the decal and Micro Sol after the decal is positioned. Microscale warns not to touch the decal once Micro Sol has been applied. To me, it reads opposite in this article. 

Give the paint job a coat of

Give the paint job a coat of gloss before applying decals, it gives a sealing coat to the paint job and makes the Decals easier to work with. 

Thanks Greg. Your source

Thanks Greg. Your source isn't wrong!

Same way here : SET for the initial positioning and SOL for final softening the decal. Some Gizmos in front of my keyboard must have changed the letters.

For me, there was no other way to get the Microscale decals smoothly into the corners other than push them in. Gently with controlled force!

Thanks Mike, for clearing

Thanks Mike, for clearing that up. I was confused. I have never used Microscale products. I am old school and always used Walthers Solvaset but it's a new age and I have to update my techniques and am about to do the first decal job in 15 years. Great work on the loco!

The article has been corrected

Article UPDATE PLEASE READ!

UPDATE Information

Folks,

I needed to update the article post official release on 03/09/2016 due to a typo in some parts of its content. Not all of you might be affected but some will.

If you are reading the online version, you will get the update automatically.

If you downloaded the PDF version prior 03/09/2016 I ask you to re-download it to have the most recent update.

What happened ?

I describe my steps on applying the decals and usage of a two component decal solvent from Microscale called Micro SET and Micro SOL.

It is a almost fail proof system where SET (blue bottle) is the first component and SOL (red bottle) the additional second component.

Microscale SET acts like an "floating agent" which helps to position the decal on the designated position on the model. With this done Microscale SOL is a second component, which extremely softens the decal - allowing to make the transparent decal foil almost disappear on the model.

In all my decaling work I follow a simple guideline - blue first, red second.

While performing the steps for this article I did this too, but I messed up the component names while writing the text for the article. This resulted in a mix of the terms Microscale SET and Microscale SOL. Which remained undiscovered even while re-reading the pre-release copy of the article.

What to do ?

If you downloaded the bad PDF version ( likely prior 03/09/2016) please re-download the PDF.

For confirmation please check the caption on photo 21.

If your copy of MRH looks like this, please re-download the PDF

The corrected version should state Microscale Micro SET here !

Apologize for this trouble!

I like to thank GregW66 for the feedback - AND the great folks at MRH for their instant response.

Thanks, Mike

This is what I love about

This is what I love about this format. A problem can be remedied very quickly. This would take MONTHS to convey to readers with a traditional print magazine.