Hans-Joachim
Marseille, the virtuoso of aerial marksmanship, is a favorite of modelers in all
scales. With new information being presented in the Airpower Editions by
Jim Kitchens and John Beaman we have some of the best research on his aircraft
available. Based on this information Lifelike
Decals now provides
markings for his four Bf-109F-4/Trops and his personal Kubelwagen, OTTO.
Previously if you
wanted to build Marseille’s Kubelwagen in any scale you had to buy the Sweet
1/144th scale Bf-109 just to get the markings in 1/72nd and 1/48th scale which
wasn’t cost effective if you didn’t build the little model. Well now you can
build it with all the colorful creatures placed around the name. For the
1/32nd scale sheet there are decals for the 1/35th scale Tamiya Kubelwagen. This
sheet is also available in 1/48 and 1/72 scale.
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Each sheet is
included on two sheets. The main sheet provides the national markings, the
four distinct versions of Yellow 14 and some of the stencils. The smaller
sheet provides the colorful stencils and the characters for the Kubelwagen.
There are enough stencils to do one aircraft.
The instruction sheet is a one sided
8 x 10 sheet of paper with side views of the four aircraft and the four side
view of the Kubelwagen. The upper and lower wings are also included.
You really don’t need anything more than that. Don’t miss the small
note on W. Nr. 8673 with its G style propeller.
The decals are beautifully printed
in perfect register and with good color saturation. They are extremely
thin and will look great on the whatever model you use.
So if you are building a
Bf-109F-4/Trop, in particular Hans-Joachim Marseille, this is the best sheet
around. It is based on the most current research, perfect decals and with
the addition of the Kubelwagen make these sheets well worth the price of
admission. Don’t forget to tell you armor modeler friends who may be
looking for something different for their Kubelwagens.
Highly recommended
Thanks to Lifelike for the review
copies. You can obtain your copy by visiting their website at http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~lifelike/
at fax number is
+81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp.
or from HobbyLink Japan. Make
sure you tell them where you heard about it. Buy with confidence.
Other shops that stock Life like
Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada,
*Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada,
*Victory Models/USA
*M & Models/USA, *Zed
Hobbies/Australia, *AB
&S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA
Floyd
S. Werner, Jr.
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