Siam Scale Decals

1/48 F-16's  Israeli Air Force decal sheet

Product # SNN48007

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Aug 14 2003

 

 

 

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

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford