Siam
Scale is a decal company based in in the Far East and their decals focus
mostly on Air Forces of the Far East, but they also do decals for
aircraft of other Air Forces....such as Israel. This 1/48 decal
sheet focuses on 8 different F-16's of the Israeli
Air Force. There are enough stencils included to build 1 of
the 8 planes featured on this decal sheet.
Five of the
aircraft have quite colourful tails. One features a hug Scorpion
on the tail. The decals are clearly
printed. They are a bit thicker than most decals, but they aren't
overly thick and should settle down just fine....I don't see this as a
problem. The colour of the decals looks very good and the detail on
the tiny stencils is clear and readable.
There are 5
pages of black and white instructions and one page showing colour
profiles of 2 of the F-16's on this decal sheet.
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Because these
decals are from the Far East....the instruction sheet refers to one of the
Far Eastern Brand of paints. This shouldn't be much of an issue, but
you will have to dig up a conversion chart of some sort to figure out the
paint colours if your local hobby shop doesn't stock this brand of
paint. There are
5 different colours of paint mentioned on the
instruction sheet. The instruction sheet doesn't fully show the
right side of the fuselages for each plane.......so you'll have to do some educated
guessing about markings on that side of the fuselage.
Go slow on the instructions to avoid making any mistakes and you should do
just fine.
All
in all a nice set of decals of the Israeli F-16's and I
recommend these to anyone wanting to add a IAF F-16 to
their display case.
I'd like to thank Siam
Scale Decals for
sending me this review sample.
Steve
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