Eggplane kit showed that 80%
Tamiya X-14 Sky Blue and 20%
Tamiya X-4 Blue provided a near
perfect match to the decals so you
might want to consider that as an
option. At this point, however, I
had no desire to strip and repaint
the model, so I left it as it was.
The final painting stage was to
apply a coat of gloss varnish and
I could move on to decaling.DECALS
Markings are provided for all
the aircraft of the 2017 team.
Whilst the basic colour scheme
has remained pretty consistent,
the main updates are the crew
names and the correlation of serial
numbers and team position codes.
I elected for aircraft 5 and 6 and
when I referred to the 1999 team
brochure, I found that aircraft
number 1, serial 66-5745 was
formerly the leader’s aircraft and
aircraft 6, serial 46-5729, was
formerly the number 2 aircraft.
The decals are quite
comprehensive and include some
large blocks of the blue colour
for the fin and the area behind
the cockpit. Given the issue I had
matching the blue, you may want
to consider using the decals as a
guide to paint the blue instead.
The decals themselves were
easy enough to apply, although
once any decal solution has been
applied, even Mr Mark Setter,they became very susceptible to
damage if you try and adjust them.
The tops of the main wings are a
little bit hit and miss getting the
alignment of the blue flash withthe wing walkways correct. Having
the wing walkways markings
supplied as a single piece complete
with national marking added to the
challenge of aligning them withoutbreaking the decal. The only other
difficult decal was the long white
arrow under the fuselage! I had
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