Linden Hill Decals

1/48 Flankers on Patrol 3 decal sheet

Product # LHD48010 for US$20.99

Product Article by Steve Bamford  June 13  2003 

 

 

 

 
This release from Linden Hill Decals is a decal sheet full of lots of variety of  "Flankers on Patrol - From Sun up to Sun down" (Baltic and Far East Su-27s) which include snake and sharks mouth markings.

The Su-27 is a very capable jet with amazing flight characteristics.  This new decal sheet includes 10 different Su-27 Flankers from the Russian Air Force, Russian Navy, Ethiopian Air force and Eritrean Air Force.

Included in the package are 2 decal sheets (1 full size sheets and one smaller sheet), 11 pages of colour instructions including pages of sideview profiles, plenty of text and some top drawings showing decal placement and camo scheme as well as info about each plane and 57 never-before-published detail photos of the planes featured on this decal sheet.  This whole package is safely contained inside a plastic ziploc bag.  Ten different planes.....of one of my favourite jets.

First off...the decals quality is first rate. 

These are very thin and clearly and crisply printed decals.  To avoid problems with the more complicated decals....some decals were printed as 2 decals that will be layered on the model to achieve one decal and avoid register problems.

Artwork is quite varied and nice selection of artwork.

Paint schemes are a range of Flanker greys and blues with some green.  The 11 pages of colour instructions tell about each aircraft....including colour sideview profiles and finally topside profiles detailing decal placement.  The paint schemes include soft edge camo schemes and 2 of the 3 colours on most of these jets is very close in shade.....so the instructions are tricky to figure out....but after a few minutes of careful study it is possible to figure out the camo paint schemes.

Planes included in this decal package are....9 Russian, 1 Ukrainian Su-27.

These decals are well recommended for your next 1/48 Flanker project.

I would like to thank Linden Hill Decals for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

 
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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford