Solvaset won't wet decals

Just bought a bottle of solvaset. I applied it onto a freshly applied and dried decal but the solvaset just beads and will not wet the decal.

Any help?

you guys are harsh. i floated the do 335 declas in solvaset for a week and they snuggled right down.

Now William! You are old enough to know very well that the first rule of building a Monogram kit is "Throw away the decals".

...and then stand back and watch the carrier yellow. Especially if you apply them over a white surface.

I gave them one last chance on my PBY at the behest of Aeromaster on
Monogram's behalf. Never again - straight into the trash they go.

What brand of decals?

If you're expecting it to "soak in," it doesn't appear to - but it will end up softening the decal, and allowing it (give it 24hr) to get into panel lines and such.

Beats me, but certainly not recent. Mine came in the light blue boxing, which I don't remember ever seeing in shops (the kit came from eBay). My guess would be early seventies.

Is this a recent thing? I did the antique A-5A Vigilante about a year back, and the decals, though yellowed with age, responded well to micro set/sol. Fairly thick decals which took a lot of sol before they got the idea to be sure, but it did work as advertised.

And it's a shame too. Some of the decals from the older kits‹F-105, F-100, ‹were well printed, in good register, and sharp as a tack! They just didn't respond to any of my setting solutions at the time. When I just had to use one, I used white glue to hold it down.

One thing I've noticed however is the red ejection seat triangles on my Thud have faded to a pale pink! Red is not a stable color in many cases.

Beats me, but certainly not recent. Mine came in the light blue boxing, which I don't remember ever seeing in shops (the kit came from eBay). My guess would be early seventies.

Same as mine then. I checked the box yesterday. If my memory doesn't let me down again, copyright date was 1967.