40,000
hours Anniversary F-16's
Also
available in 1/48
Siam
Scale is a decal company based in in the Far East and their decals focus
mostly on Air Forces of the Far East, but they also do decals for
aircraft of other Air Forces....such as Israel. This 1/72 decal
sheet focuses on two different F-16's of the Royal
Thai Air Force. There are enough stencils included to build 1 of
the 4 planes featured on this decal sheet.
Aircraft #1
is a F-16A plane #10311 of the Royal Thai Airforce.
This is a
special Anniversary scheme to mark 40,000 hours of flight. This
plane belongs to 103 Squadron. The special markings seem to be
confined to so very brightly coloured artwork on the tail of a Falcon
bird of prey in full attack mode with the text "40000
HOURS". You do have the option of building this aircraft in
it's regular paint scheme without the special anniversary artwork.
There is also a small
pouncing grey Tiger on both sides of the nose.
Aircraft
#2
is a F-16B plane #10302 of the Royal Thai Airforce. This is a
special Anniversary scheme to mark 40,000 hours of flight. This
plane belongs to 103 Squadron. The special markings seem to be
confined to so very brightly coloured artwork on the tail of a Falcon bird
of prey in full attack mode with the text "40000 HOURS".
You do have the option of building this aircraft in it's regular paint
scheme without the special anniversary artwork. There is also a
small pouncing grey Tiger on both sides of the nose. One thing worth noting is
that the forward part of the canopy is smoke tinted and the rear portion is
clear tint. The Tool 'n' Tips section here on ARC has some ideas on
how to tint canopies.
The decals are clearly
printed. They are a bit thicker than most decals, but they aren't
overly thick and should settle down just fine....I don't see this as a
problem. The colour of the decals looks very good and the detail on
tail artwork and the Tiger nose art is very clear. Because these
decals are from the Far East....the instruction sheet refers to one of the
Far Eastern Brand of paints. This shouldn't be much of an issue, but
you will have to dig up a conversion chart of some sort to figure out the
paint colours if your local hobby shop doesn't stock this brand of
paint. There are 5 different colours of paint mentioned on the
instruction sheet. The instruction sheet shows both sides the
fuselage of both versiopns of both of these jets.
This is a very nice set of decals of the Royal Thai Air Force
F-16's and I
recommend these to anyone wanting to add a Royal Thai Air Force F-16 to
their display case.
I'd like to thank Siam
Scale Decals for
sending me this review sample.
Steve
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