This latest release
from Lifelike
Decals
features four different very colorful P-51 Mustangs. This is Part 2 of a series dealing
with the P-51 Mustang in Europe from June 1944 to May of 1945.
The
4 aircraft all have some sort of noseart or artwork and 2 have D-Day stripes and
one has a blue nose...plus
2 have the Malcolm hood canopy and 2 have the later canopy...and one aircraft
has sexy noseart.
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P-51B-15-NA
42-106924 "Salem Representative" flown by Lt. Ralph K. Hofer of
4FG/334FS, Debden AB, England on June 4 1944. Paint scheme is
overall bare metal with a red spinner and a red stripe on the tail, olive
drab anti-glare panel
and olive drab on all the upper surfaces. Center of canopy has a
yellow frame.
This aircraft has a large number of kill markings and the artwork is a wing
Donkey wearing boxing gloves and boxing shirt and standing on it's hind
legs.
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P-51D-5-NA
44-14059 flown by Capt. Fred Munder Jr. of the 363FS/381FG, Maupertus AS or
Azrville AS, in July-August 1944. Paint scheme is
overall bare metal with a red spinner and partial D-Day stripes and black
stripes on the top of the wings. The anti-glare panel fore and aft of
the cockpit is olive drab. The artwork is a large eagle on one side of
the nose and the text "Skyczar" on the other side of the nose.
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P-51B-10-NA
"BIG MAC Junior" flown by Capt. John Brown Jr. of the 363FS/382FG,
Maupertus AS, France in May 1945. Paint scheme is
overall bare metal with a yellow spinner and partial D-Day stripes that are
over painted in olive drab on the top sides of the wings. This aircraft has a large number of
mission markings and there is a sharks mouth with eyes on the nose.
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P-51D-20-NA
44-72322 "Nancy Lee" flown by Lt. Richard Baggett of the
370FS/402FG, Gutersloh, Germany in August 1945. Paint scheme is overall bare
metal with a blue nose and spinner and sexy noseart.
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The quality of these decals is of
very good quality. The 2 decal sheets and one small insert decal sheet are clearly printed and in
perfect register. Some decals come in 2 layers with the bottom decal being
a white decal to ensure the colorful upper decal remains bright and
colorful. The 4 pages of instruction sheets include 3 view color profiles
to assist you with decal placement. You also get a separate instruction
sheet showing 4 view profile line drawings indicating generic stencil placement.
Wow this sheet is
loaded with variety in markings and noseart....these 4 Mustangs are very colorful examples of
P-51's that
flew in the final stages of WW2.
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
I would like to
thank Lifelike
Decals for
providing me with this product sample.
Steve
Bamford
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