Yellow Hammer Decals

1/48 Farewell Tomcats #2 decal sheet

Product # YHD48032 for $11.99

Product Article by Steve Bamford on July 7 2006

 

 

 

This new decal sheet from Yellow Hammer Decals includes markings for two F-14's  from late 2005 and early 2006.  The recommended kit for these decals is the 1/48 Hasegawa or Revell kit.

This is a special decal sheet featuring markings for two of the F-14's used for the retirement events for the F-14.  

The first Tomcat on this sheet is aircraft #100 with VF-31 Tomcatters on March 10 2006 with the Tomcat "Final Flight" at NAS Oceana, Virginia.  This F-14 has black tails with the Felix the Cat runnign with a bomb cartoon in a yellow circle.  There are also additional triangular artwork marking on the inside of the black tails.  The paint scheme for the rest of the jet is 3 tone gray. 

The second F-14 is plane #160 with VF-101 Grim Reapers on September 15 2005. at the Squadron Disestablishment at NAS Oceana, Virginia.  The poaint scheme is 2 tone grey with large red areas on the tail and a black anti-glare panel in front of the windshield.

The decals were flawlessly printed and the clear carrier film is trimmed very close to the crisply printed colored areas.  The colours look good and will cover very well.  Some of the decals come in 2 layers to ensure the registration is perfect.

Both the decal options are good choices for these classic F-14 Squadrons at the very sad time as the F-14 was retired from service. 

A very nice decal sheet and it is sure to be popular with the F-14 modellers as they cope with the retirement of the F-14.

I would like to thank Cutting Edge Modelworks for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford