Little Joe II part 2

In an undocumented session I applied the Vallejo Metallics Aluminum, and then added stripes of "Steel" according to the directions. I coated it with V's Metallics Varnish and left it for a day to cure. 
The next day, it was time for the decals. There are lots of them and nearly all are black squares, and rectangles.  The good points of the decals is that they are thin and go on with any problems. The bad point is they are thin and want to curl up on itself and if you have to move it more than a mm, it will rip.  I lost the very first decal I applied because of that. I'll mask and paint that one on later - I continued - 

  
The other problem I had is keeping straight where I was on the rocket. I lost another decal by applying it to the wrong quadrant, and then trying to move it. Not having built a rocket in a long time, it was the most stressful time I had at the hobby bench in seemingly forever. About half was through I learned that it's better to cut and apply all the black marking separately, rather than risking headaches of more ruined decals.

You'll notice the Aluminum color on the ship.

I ruined a 3rd decal applying the "United States" wording down the side of the rocket. It ripped in half and then folded over on itself.  There was a second set of the words. But these were a smaller text size. No matter, I didn't have any other choice. 
After the appeared to dry I applied the Micro Sol, to have them sink into the panel lines and radiator covers. Taking a look one of the decals ripped while conforming to the radiators - Dang it, I'll have to paint that.  I saw they all weren't nestled in and applied another coat where needed.  This is when I decided to call it a day. 
Check back to see the finale (hopefully). Thanks for looking.