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 1/72 decal
sheet focuses on three different F-8F's of the Royal
Thai Air Force. There are enough National markings included to build 2 of
the 3 planes featured on this decal sheet.
Aircraft #1
is a F-8F Bearcat #2300 finished in a bare metal paint scheme.
This plane flew with 23 Squadron out of Khokratiem Air Base. Markings are colourful and
include a brown bull on both sides of the fuselage behind the
cockpit. The tail is very noticeable with it's diagonal black and
yellow stripes. This Bearcat had a blue centreline fuel tank and
a black anti-glare panel on the top side of the engine cowl.
Aircraft #2
is a F-8F Bearcat #4331
finished in a bare metal paint scheme. This plane flew with 43
Squadron out of Taklee Air Base. Markings are eye catching and
include a silhouette of a tradition warrior on both sides of the fuselage
behind the cockpit. The tail has what appears to be 3 missiles in
flight. This Bearcat had a bare metal centreline fuel tank and
a black anti-glare panel on the top side of the engine cowl.
Aircraft #3
is a F-8F Bearcat #211
finished in a overall blue scheme. This plane flew with 12
Squadron out of Donmeaumg Air Base.
Markings
for this Bearcat
are colourful and
include a big red cat's head with yellow wings on the sides of the fuselage
behind the cockpit. The tail has a yellow star. This Bearcat
had a blue centreline fuel tank.
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. 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 fuselage.......so you'll have to do some educated
guessing about markings on that side of the fuselage, but the top and
bottom views show the right side of the fuselage probably has the same
markings as the left side of the fuselage.
Go slow on the instructions to avoid making any mistakes.
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Instruction
Sheet
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All
in all a nice set of decals of the Royal Thai Air Force F-8F's and I
recommend these to anyone wanting to add a Royal Thai Air Force F-8F to
their display case.
I'd like to thank Siam
Scale Decals for
sending me this review sample.
Steve
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