Airfix Model World – September 2019

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Digital Su-24M

By: Foxbot Decals Item no: 48-029

Price: £16.70 Web: foxbot.com.ua

Designed for Trumpeter’s impressive

1/48 Su-24M Fencer-D, this Foxbot

product is from its ‘Warriors of

Light’ series, depicting aircraft from

the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

It comes on three decal sheets,

with all markings printed on satin

carrier film, which should minimise

silvering. Register and opacity are

excellent, notably on the unit insignia

and warning placards (with yellow

backgrounds) and enough stencils

are supplied for one airframe.

The colour drawings provide clear

guidance on decal placement, while

also giving accurate references

for the four-tone camouflage

and equivalent paints in RAL and

FS codes, plus Vallejo Model Air

products. Separate mask sets are

available for the digital camouflage

on each of the two Lutsk-based

airframes, White 20 and White 41, as

they appeared in 2016 (FM48-005

and FM48-006 respectively).

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CVR(T) and Scorpion 90 Part 2

By: Star Decals

Item no: 35-C-1202 Price: £6.50

Web: http://www.star-decals.net

Star Decals’ second collection of

Alvis CVR(T) Scorpion variants

covers vehicles operated by

Spain, Nigeria, Togo, Chile,

Venezuela and Honduras. While

most can be used on AFV

Club/Accurate Armour kits,

the Scorpion 90s will require

a conversion set to depict

the larger turret and 90mm

main armament. National

modifications are noted where

possible; references will be vital

when modelling most of these

machines. Six schemes are

specified, but when alternative

vehicles are considered, there

are 11 decal options:

• Scorpion, NA864020,
  Armoured Corps, Nigeria


• Scorpion, NA864010,
  Armoured Corps, Nigeria


• Scorpion, FN31512/131,
  Infantería de Marina, Spain


• Scorpion, 122, Infantería de
  Marina, Spain


• Scorpion 90, FAT 3298, Togo


• Scorpion, FAT 3283, Togo


• Scorpion, RHFE
  3713026/57MS46, Honduran
  Army


• Scorpion, RHFE 3713023,
  Honduran Army
  
  
  • Scorpion
    90, EV-106,
    Venezuelan
    Army
  
  
  • Scorpion,
    CIM-060011,
    Infantería
    de Marina,
    Chilean Navy
  
  
  • Scorpion,
    CIM-060813,
    Infantería
    de Marina,
    Chilean Navy
  
  
  
  

STING IN THE TAIL

TONKA FAREWELL

RAF Tornado GR.4 Special and

Retirement Schemes

By: Xtradecal

Item no: X72310 Price: £ 7. 9 9

Web: http://www.hannants.co.uk

Xtradecal was quick off the mark

with its Tornado retirement

decals – one each in the markings

of 31 and IX(B) Squadrons and

the third in retro camouflage and

painted with the crests of all RAF

units to operate the type, along

with five additional airframes.

Four are Tornados, honouring

the 100th anniversaries of 41(R)

Tactical Evaluation Squadron

(TES) and the RAF, plus aircraft

commemorating 40 years of

Panavia and 30 years of the

Tornado. The final option caters

for a 617 Squadron F-35B, ZM148.

Note the retirement markings

are also available in 1/48 scale

(X48204), but modellers will

need to use either kit/aftermarket

stencils. There are eight schemes:

• ZD716/DH, 31 Sqn, RAF Marham,
  March 2019


• ZG752, RAF Marham Air Wing,
  March 2019


• ZG775/AF, IX(B) Sqn, RAF

Marham, March 2019

• ZA560/EB-Q, 41(R) TES, RAF
  Coningsby, 2017


• ZG752/129, RAF Marham Air
  Wing, March 2018


• ZA369/003, XIII Sqn, RAF
  Leuchars, 2009


• ZA401/012, II(AC) Sqn, RAF
  Marham, June 2012


• F-35B, ZM148, 617 Sqn, RAF
  Marham, January 2019

Supermarine Spitfire LF.Vb/VIII/IXe

‘Sexy Spitfires’

By: Exito Decals Item no: ED48003

Price: €12.75 Web: http://www.exito.site

Exito Decals is a new company to

AMW, but its initial releases are

stunning, and its first Spitfire set

features three of the comparatively

few machines to receive nose

artwork, with one example each

of an LF.Vb, LF.XIII and LF.IX. The

decal sheet is dwarfed by the A4

placement/colour guides/profiles

(all of which can double as posters),

and there’s a piece of thick card to

prevent them being folded/creased.

Printed by Cartograf, the markings

feature the firm’s trademark high-

quality illustrations, plus perfect

register and sharp demarcations,

notably on the RAF roundels, while

the nose art is replicated faithfully.

The airframes are:

• LF.Vb, EN921/YO-A, Fg Off Jack
  Sheppard, 401 Sqn RCAF, RAF
  Redhill/Staplehurst/Biggin Hill,
  July-October 1943


• LF.VIII, MT841/U, 2 Sqn RIAF, Kohat,
  British India, spring 1946


• LF.IXe, TA864/LW-L, 318 (Gdański)
  Sqn, Plt Off Zdzisław Uchwat,
  Risano (near Udine), Italy, May-
  June 1945

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TONKA FAREWELL

Marham, March 2019

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• Scorpion prevent them being folded/creased. June 1945


• Scorpion,


• Scorpion,