William,

Did you mention to him (via e-mail) that you want to
preserve the decals? There is a way to remove them
(I seem to dimly recall some discussion).
If you paint the same colour you could mask off the area
around the decal.
Yeah, Brian is very helpful and very free with his information.
I'm sorry that Richard Sachs has dropped off the list
he had some wonderful posts!

Marty