Yellow Hammer Decals

1/48 Farewell Tomcats #1 decal sheet

Product # YHD48031 for $10.99

Product Article by Steve Bamford on July 13 2006

 

 

 

This new decal sheet from Yellow Hammer Decals includes markings for two F-14's  from the VF-213 "Final Flight" Tomcats on March 10 2006 at NAS Oceana, Virginia.

ate 2005 and early 2006.  The recommended kit for these decals is the 1/48 Hasegawa or Revell kit.

This is a special decal sheet featuring markings for two of the F-14's used for the retirement events for the F-14.  

The first Tomcat on this sheet is aircraft #213 with the World Famous Fighting Blacklions of VF-213 Squadron on March 10 2006 with the Tomcat "Final Flight" at NAS Oceana, Virginia.  This F-14 has medium blue accents on the top of the tails and rudder and on the top of the fuselage around the canopy.  The tails also sport black lion artwork.   The paint scheme for the rest of the jet is lo-viz gray. 

The second F-14 is aircraft #200 with the Fighting Blacklions of VF-213 Squadron on March 10 2006 with the Tomcat "Final Flight" at NAS Oceana, Virginia.  This F-14 has dark blue accents on the top of the tails and on the top of the fuselage around the canopy is two tone blue stripes.  Painting masks are included with this decal set for painting the two-tome blue stripes around the canopy.  The tails also sport black lion artwork.   The paint scheme for the rest of the jet is lo-viz gray. 

The decals were flawlessly printed and the clear carrier film is trimmed very close to the crisply printed colored areas.  The colours look good and will cover very well.  

Both the decal options are good choices for this classic F-14 Squadron and I must admit this sheet caught my eye as I partial to blue paint. 

A very nice decal sheet and it is sure to be popular with the F-14 modellers as they cope with the retirement of the F-14.

I would like to thank Cutting Edge Modelworks for providing me with this review sample.

Steve

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford