The cowl decals are deceptively easy. First you must check the length of the red "top" decal against your cowl. it should be long enough to go from the front of the cowl top to the back edge of the cowl. If your cowl is too long you may need to trim 1/4" or so off the back.

Install the cowl on the plane so that you can line up the stripes that you are installing with the ones on the fuse.

The fist pieces to go on are the red "side" pieces. Spray some water on the cowl and place the red side so that it matches up with the red on the side of the fuse, and the top of the decal extends all the way forward in a straight line. When you do the second side, make sure it ends up in the same spot as the first as you will joint these red stripes with a third piece later. Once you have the decal located where you want it, use a paper towel and push any water out from under it.

Install the black "side" decals in the same fashion.

Install the top red decal, it's front edge should be close to the front edges of the red side decals, and the top should overlap the sides by a bit.

The front red piece can be a bit tricky, but if you make sure you have water on the cowl, you can re-positiion it a couple of times with no problem. Use a heat gun to form the decal around the corners of the cowl. It will smooth out quite nicely. Make sure you have the decal where you want it though because heat makes the adhesive much more aggressive.

There are red and black pieces that join the red and black stripes that come to the front of the cowl from either side, these are applied next. If you dod not get the sides on correctly in the first part of the process, these front pieces will be crooked (like mine!). Again use the heat gun to smooth down any spots where the covering puckers around corners.

Finally apply the checkerboard decals. to do this, remove any of the decal that you don't want to end up on the plane. You should be left with the backing paper and the checkerboard squared only. Take some masking tape and lay it over the decal, rub the masking tape down so that the decal sticks to it well. Peel the masking tape away from the backing paper. you should now have the checkerboard on the tape with the sticky side exposed. Center the decal over the cowl and lay it down. Rub down each square with your finger then peel the masking tape away and there you have it!.

The little "Lycoming" and "Champion" decals stick down the same way.

Once you get the hang of the covering material it works really well.

If you want to dress up the bottom of your plane, go to a sign shop and get some vinyl designed for use on automobiles. You can cut stripes out of it yourself, and it has the same "peel-and-stick" type installation as the covering supplied by Vector Flight,.