Two Bobs Aviation Graphics

1/48 F-15DJ Nyutabaru JASDF Cold Face Killas #2 decal sheet

Product #48153

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Jan 22 2008

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This is the second in a  three part series on the F-15DJ Nyutabaru JASDF Cold Face Killas.

JASDF Aggressor schemes are some of the most colorful schemes that you’ll ever see adorn a modern military aircraft.  The Japanese truly outdo themselves whenever they decide to pull a jet into the paint barn and these three sheets are no exception.  

This decal sheet covers one aircraft....specifically the Japanese Aggressor aircraft # 32-8085 which features a green checker scheme over the entire aircraft.  This jet was previously released by Hasegawa in a limited boxing years’ ago.  Pretty impossible to find nowadays so this is a welcome release by Twobobs.  One full set of stencil data is included for this jet.  

 

The full color instruction sheet features a full-color placement guide.  There are no photo references on this sheet.  Twobobs has excluded photos before on other sheets when the copyright holder of the photographs could not be contacted.  

All of Twobobs decals are printed by Microscale and feature very thin carrier film and accurate color representation.  

The three sheets in this series feature some VERY colorful schemes for the F-15DJ and Twobobs has captured these in all their glory.  I’m sure these will prove to be very popular, because past sales of these Japanese aggressor sheets has been very brisk in the past.....so buy them while you can.  

I'd like to extend a special thanks to Bob Sanchez for doing these Japanese Aggressor aircraft as they are a favourite of many, many modellers including myself.  Way to go Bob!!!

The decals are contained on three decal sheets with over 2 of these decal sheets being devoted to the green squares that dominate this paint scheme.  The third sheet is full of stencil and national markings and some cobra tailart.  The stencils include Japanese characters which must have been a trick for Twobobs to sort out and printing those tiny characters must have been difficult but the quality decal printing at Microscale was up to the task.  Some decals come in 2 layers to ensure perfect registration.   

The 2 pages of color instruction sheets feature the usual 4 view color profiles showing the camo layout and decal placement with colors listed in in FS#'s, Testors, Humbrol, Gunze Sangyo, and Xtracrylics. 

Another great sheet from Twobobs that I'm sure will be a hot seller....get 'em while you can......I know I'll be hanging on to my copy of this sheet with the expectation of building this jet in the future.

This sheet is available through http://www.twobobs.net/ and select US Hobby Shops.  Overseas customers can purchase these from Twobobs site or through Twobobs network of overseas distributors.  Remember, shipping is always FREE to US Customers at Twobobs!! 

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford