A
friend of mine from Odessa, Ukraine sent several decals from this company range
to me and I felt I should share with you lot especially when this manufacturer
is not covered in the review section of ARCair.
A
pack of six decals each in each plastic bag with a colour sleeve arrived to
Delhi
a few days ago. I am now a proud owner of the following
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72-12 Su-17M3/M4 Fitter H/K (1:72)
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72-09 An-12 Cub (1:72)
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72-08 Su-25 Frogfoot Part 1 (1:72)
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72-01 Su-24 Fencer D (1:72)
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144-07 Tu-160 Blackjack (1:144)
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144-01 IL-76 Candid (1:144)
Each
decal sheet is printed on a (size) white or pale blue paper. All crisply
printed, colour is very precise and tuned down to scale with all roundels also
in register. I used a few decals of this range before and can assure you that
they respond very well to Decal Sol and Decal Set or similar liquids we use from
time to time for better settlement of the decals on uneven surfaces.
Each
decal comes with black and white instruction on one or two double-sided A4 size
pages. Each instruction provides the exact position of each element on the plane
for each specific option and offers a colour scheme with colour reference for
Federal Standard, Humbrol, Model Master Revel and Gunze Sangyo. Although made in
Ukraine
all the text is doubles in English.
And
finally, the sleeve is a thin colour cardboard to protect the item inside from
bending. Fro our convenience it provides some colour reference for the camo
schemes.
One
word to describe those is superb. I would highly recommend those to any
enthusiast modeller building the VVS and/or FSU and their allies kits and some
cover also post soviet era too.
Should
you wish to check the rest of their range you can go to the web site www.olimpmodelsgroup.com/
which also provides information on the shops around the world which trade their
product.
Su-17M3/M4
Fitter H/K set covers 8 variants amongst which are the Ukrainian VVS (2), USSR
VVS (5) and
Peru
(1)
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An-12
Cub set cover 8
variants amongst which are Modern Russia VVS (7) and Ukrainian VVS (1)
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Su-25
Frogfoot Part 1 set covers 11 variants amongst which are Ukrainian VVS (2),
Modern Russia VVS (7), USSR VVS (1) and VVS of Belarus (1)
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Su-24
Fencer D set covers 7 variants amongst which are VVS of Modern Russia (6) and
the Ukrainian VVS (1)
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Tu-160
Blackjack set covers 14 variants with all plane names included amongst which are
VVS of Modern Russia (13) and the Ukrainian VVS (1)
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And
finally IL-76 Candid set covers 6 variants amongst which are VVS of Modern
Russia (3), the Ukrainian VVS (1), VVS of Belarus (1) and Indian Air Force (1)
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Good
luck with modelling!
Anatoly
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