The side covers, headlight bowl and ears are all OK, just the tank but he did say he'd stuck a ton of lacquer on it to cover the decals well.In my opinion, it's not the decals, it's the paint underneath that is gassing off. Remember this started with a curing problem with the paint. I believe it's soft all the way down. Why? could be bad catalyst, could be a bad ingredient in the base, hard to tell.