It would be preferably applying decals on gloss surface to avoid any "silvering" effect on the decals.
Silvering (Frost-like-effect under clear film of decals) will happen when you apply decals on top of flat/matt surface.
Since you are going to paint white, can apply decals before top-coat wt clear. Just make sure your white is gloss enough.

z3ro717, already finish ur ingram but never post one???

stephen5577, or alternatively you can try this:
http://forum.zerogunz.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=6488

No sweat pakwan.. i believe every one of them started small just like anyone of you guys who just started the same hobby.

Only time and passion that propel you further

stephen, do remember hand brushing is a not to be forgotten stuff in modelling.
The reason ur hand painting fail because of the thinning.
Either too thick or too thin, that's all.

Simple, if you are trying too hard to get it right and it still don't.. probably something is wrong somewhere.. You can never get it right if you repeat the same thing again and again.

Come here and ask again.. sure there'll be generous souls to help

that is call "buffing".
any soft cloth or tissue/cottonbud also can.

no need use force one.. slowly rub rub rub can already..

you can't. can only minimise cannot avoid.
thin your paint bit more if you keep having serious orange peel.

If you have orange peel when using primer, then wet sand your primer (after curing) with 1200-1500.
After wet sand, orange peel of paint above primer should reduce.

Try thin your paint and thinner a bit more.
Thicker primer thinning usually caused coarser primed surface.
So when you paint on coarse primer surface, paint also become coarse/orange peel effect.

can.
but that means few rounds of sanding and polishing to get to the smoothness achievable by using airbrushing or canspray.
and many rounds of repeated painting rounds too.

if you are going to handpaint, make sure the thinning is very thin and you have to paint>sand>paint>sand at least 4-8 rounds.

if you are just going to brush primer for the sake of following the standard procedure, my advise is better don't.
waste time waste money.
if you worry ur paint won't stick properly without primer, wet sand ur plastic surface wt 1000grit sandpaper.
if you think it's too troublesome, use can spray

LOL.. how to melt a joint that is not joined by the liquid itself.
unpronounceable, the thin cement itself is a solvent that melts the plastic so the plastic stick to each other.
if the joint is not too "dead", try apply thin cement and slowly open the joint.
dead = tightly glue = perfectly joined = no way to separate = bye bye


alternatively i've heard people dip the parts inside water, and put into freezer. the expanding ice will somehow force open the seam in between, so making it easier to separate once the ice is thawed.