Airfix Model World – July 2018

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DECAL SHEETS

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F-14A VF-2 Bounty Hunters

By: MILSPEC

Item no: 72-018 Price: US $12

Web: http://www.milspecdecals.com

This offering may appear

familiar, as it’s a re-worked

and updated CAM Decals

product with new artwork

and data stencils. It supplies

sufficient decals for a single

airframe (158988/216/NK),

including full hi-vis stencil data

(also available separately as

72-F14-001), and features one

of the more colourful Tomcat

schemes as applied to VF-2

‘Bounty Hunters’ airframes

during its second deployment

on the USS Enterprise in 1976-

77. This livery (Insignia White
    undersides with non-specular
    Light Gull Gray uppers)
    included the unit’s ‘Langley
    Stripes’ on the forward
    fuselage, two stars on the
    rudders and the squadron insignia
    (a quartered shield) on the outer

vertical fins. Register and opacity are

excellent, and this will enliven any

1/72 Tomcat.

MERCENARY FELINE MARKINGS

Lockheed Martin F-35A

Test aircraft – Royal

Norwegian AF

By: Vingtor

Item no: 32-131 Price: €13

Web: http://www.vingtor.net

Norway is one of the

partner nations in

the F-35 Lightning II

programme, and has had

aircraft delivered thus

far for training at Luke

Air Base in Arizona,

USA. Vingtor’s sheet

offers serials for the

first four airframes, but

also plenty of generic

numbers with which to

portray future deliveries.

Stencils are supplied,

along with national

insignia, pilot/maintainer

names and more. The initial-

delivery aircraft are 5087, 5088,

5110 and 5111. A different option

for anyone with Italeri’s 1/32 kit

(see January 2018 issue for a

superb full build article.

SCANDY LIGHTNING II

1/32

US Tanks and AFVs North Africa
’42-43
By: Star Decals
Item no: 35-C 1127 Price: US $8
Web: http://www.star-decals.net

Modellers intent on replicating
armoured fighting vehicles in dustier
climes should consider Star Decals’

selection for US vehicles.

There are schemes for

early Shermans, Priests

and an M2 half-track

used in North Africa, and

yellow turret ID panels

decorate the M4A1s

for an extra splash of

colour. One of these

vehicles sports two-tone

camouflage, and both

Priests are of the two-

colour variety, for added

interest. Plenty of gloss

varnish and/or trimming

is recommended, as

the decals have matt

carrier film:

• M4A1 early ‘Gay’, probably 2nd
  AD, 1943


• M4A1 early ‘Forget It’, 66th AR, 2nd
  AD, Oran, April 1943


• M7 ‘The Texas Special’, Cannon Co,
  34th Div, Rabat, Morocco, 1943


• M7 early, Oran area, Algeria, 1943


• M2 half-track w/ 35mm AT-gun,
  601st TDB, Oran, 1943

SUN-SCORCHED ARMOUR 1/35

1/72

Free French Forces Sherman

tanks vol.2

By: Toro Model

Item no: 72D33 Price: €4

Web: http://www.toro-model.com.pl

Military modellers who work

in 1/72 scale have a splendid

option here, as it provides

beautifully printed decals for

seven Sherman tanks of the

Free French Forces in World War

Two. Different sub-types are

represented, while unit badges

and patriotic vehicle names

add plenty of nuances over the

standard Olive Drab. These are

superb markings for traditional

modellers and gamers alike:

• M4A2 ‘Auerstaedt’, 5th African
  Chasseurs, France 1945


• M4A3 (105) HVSS
  ‘Sarreguemines II’, HQ Aqn, 12
  Cuirassiers, France, 1945


• M4A2 ‘Languedoc’, 12th
  African Chasseurs, Normandy,
  June 1944


• M4A4 ‘St Malo’, 4th Sqn, 2nd
  Cuirassiers, Marseilles, France,
  1944


• M4A1 (76) ‘Rivoli’, 4th Sqn, 2nd
  African Chasseurs, France, 1944


• M4A4 ‘Lorraine’, 3rd Sqn, 2nd
  African Chasseurs, France, 1944


• M4A2 ‘Murat’, 5th African
  Chasseurs, France, 1945

THICK-SKINNED GAULS

1/72

programme, and has had

portray future deliveries.

insignia, pilot/maintainer

names and more. The initial- for anyone with Italeri’s 1/32 kit

SCANDY LIGHTNING II

superb markings for traditional Chasseurs, France, 1945

vehicles sports two-tone

camouflage, and both

colour variety, for added

varnish and/or trimming

is recommended, as

the decals have matt

carrier film:

selection for US vehicles.

There are schemes for

early Shermans, Priests

and an M2 half-track

yellow turret ID panels

decorate the M4A1s

for an extra splash of

colour. One of these

for an extra splash of

including full hi-vis stencil data

in 1976-

rudders and the squadron insignia

vertical fins. Register and opacity are

excellent, and this will enliven any

MERCENARY FELINE MARKINGS 1/72