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Thanks for doing that, Talbot! Really appreciate it. Your results look comparable to mine. I would say it may just be reaching the limits of what the Silhouettes can do (and these are small) with a standard setup. The large magnifications make it looks worse than it is, though I would still only characterize them as "acceptable". For my Hunter I went ahead and used the Paulus Victor 'Dirty Danes' decals I had. I will be building several other RDAF aircrafts, but several of them have bigger roundels (2x) so should be less of a problem. I know there are better machines out there. I wonder if a Cricut will do better? Anyone care to chime in with a test? Please! I will try the new Graphtec knifes I ordered when they get here - hoping they might improve the results. Thanks for everyone's input. Henrik

no problem, interested to see how you make out with the Graphtec

perfect example Kev it's frustrating sometimes with all the work put into the build, paint and detail then something like that happens ☹️ for me it's two things 1) they used paint on the real things, so using masks looks much better and more authentic representation 2) for the life of me I don't know why but the silvering gods DO NOT LIKE ME

what you have there is much much better results, definitely better I created simple circles at 5mm and 2.5mm, centred them both and then put a small cutout square around them printed two of them on oramask 810 similar to yours, there are slight imperfections on the cut the closer you zoom in, personally nothing that I would be overly worried about i've also been trying to compare the absolute round, initially they looked ok, then perhaps off slightly on the lower right a bit but at this point my eye's are probably done for the day after work and looking back and forth between them isn't helping pics are on a iphone, about an inch off the mask note the 3rd pic is the sections peeled off, thus not correctly centered

Thanks Talbot - that would be very helpful. Below is the new tests I did based on the feedback from Kevin and Snigel. Left is Oramask 810S, right is Artool Ultra Mask. I used the same settings for both. Artool had a slightly harder time separating, so probably could use a little more force or depth. (Force 6, Speed 3, Passes 1, Blade Depth 2, Acc 1, All other options off) The outer donut looks good - the inner still irregular on both. Both show the knife start point (note the circles were repositioned so not exactly a match). Notice the Ovals i did - here the start and end point on the OUTER circle is off. I am fearful it is a little bit like pixel peeping - once you get really close it looks worse that it really is. Still - with my naked eye and close inspection you can see the inner roundels (which is the correct size for post 60s RDAF aircraft in 1/48) are not perfectly round. And that is ignoring the knife entry tear, and the Oval offset...

Welcome aboard, Pascal! Is there any possibility you could post in English? Unfortunately most of our members don't read French. And for those members, here's a Google translation of Pascal's post: "Hello everyone My name is Pascal, I'm 65 years old, French, and live near Grenoble. I've been a model maker for many years. I mainly build 1/72 scale aircraft, with a particular interest in Free French (FAFL) pilots during World War II. I'm gradually replacing kit decals with stencils made using Silhouette. I'm a beginner with stencils, so I've joined you to learn more. Thank you for the welcome." Kev

For those of you wondering if it's really worth the bother to ditch the convenience of decals and paint your markings on, here's a model I built in 2008... In case you're curious, the decals were from Eagle Strike. The rest of the paint work is fine, other than being a little dusty. Kev