British airplanes to me have
never been really colorful, even the beautifully elegant Spitfire seems, well to
put it bluntly, boring. Then I got
this wonderful sheet from Lifelike
Decals.
Designed for the Heller Mk.XVI, these four aircraft are quite colorful. This is sheet is a re-release.
First off the there is the
overall light blue aircraft of Air Vice Marshall Sir James Robb.
This beauty is simplicity at its finest.
Between the pennants, stars and the British roundels this ‘plain’
powder blue aircraft is really nice.
Aircraft two is a ‘typical’
Spitfire with some unique nose art belonging to Squadron Leader Raymond
Lallemant of the Belgium Squadron. The
rooster and the personal markings make it less typical aircraft finished in Dark
Green/ Ocean Grey/ Medium Sea Grey with Sky code.
Aircraft three displays the
roundels of the Belgium AF with the Dark Green/ Ocean Grey/ Medium Sea Grey.
The roundels and red spinner are what add the color to this aircraft.
I think it just looks ‘cooler’ than a British Spit.
The final aircraft is an
overall Gloss Black personal hack for Air Officer Commander.
Yellow wingtips and spinner along with the lightened blue and red make
this aircraft quite unique.
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images below to see larger images
The Lifelike instructions are
included on two 8 x 10 sheets in full color.
The profiles are included on one sheet as well as the stencil data. The other sheet has the interpretation of the colors,
references, and the plan views and the other side codes not in the profiles.
This all makes for a very well researched decal sheet.
The decals themselves are
perfectly printed and in register. They
also have excellent color saturation. Two
sheets are included. The first one
is full of the color markings including the roundels.
The other sheet is all the stencils in black. You get enough stencils for one complete aircraft.
I really like the research and
the way it is presented. These
decals don’t tout to know everything on these aircraft.
What isn’t known is presented as an unknown.
I think this is an excellent way to present the decals.
Well researched, perfectly thin
in register decals, and an excellent overall presentation.
These are what I like my decals to be.
These are just typical of the quality from Lifelike.
Highly recommended
Thanks to Lifelike for the
review copies. You can obtain your
copy by visiting their website at http://www16.ocn.ne.jp/~lifelike/
. Make sure you tell them where you
heard about it. Buy with
confidence.
You can purchase these decals
either directly from Lifelike
Decals at fax number is
+81-3-5680-6733, and e-mail is lifelike@eos.ocn.ne.jp.
or from HobbyLink Japan.
Other shops that stock Life like
Decals are *Hannants/UK, *Mister Kit/Italy, *Revi (publisher)/Czech Republic, *SkyGrid/Canada,
*Roll Models/USA, *Great Models Webstore/USA, *FlightDecs/Canada,
*Victory Models/USA,
*M & Models/USA, *Zed
Hobbies/Australia, *AB
&S Enterprise/Australia, *Desert Miniature/USA
Floyd
S. Werner, Jr.
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