This latest release
from Lifelike
Decals
decal sheet features four different Spitfires. This is Part 4 of a
series dealing with the Spitfire and this decal sheet includes Spitfires from
August 1941 to 1997 and includes Mk. V all the way up to Mk. XVI's.
The
4 aircraft include a mix of everything from WW2 RAF European camo and USA desert
camo paint schemes, overall blue flown post-war as a personal hack by Air Chief
Marshall Sir James Robb to a white and red Spitfire Mk. XVI flown by BAC
Aviation in 1997.
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Spitfire
Mk. XVI
flown by Air
Chief Marshall Sir James Robb in Oct 1948 to September 1951 as a personal
hack from Hendon AB. This aircraft is overall light blue. Guns
were removed and gun compartments were converted to luggage compartments.
Art work is 5 Star pennant giving this aircraft the name "Five Star
Spitfire".
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Spitfire
Mk. VB, W3185 flown by Tangmere Fighter Wing Commander Douglas Bader from
Tangmere on Aug 9, 1941. Camo is Brown/Green on top with artwork
featuring a boot kicking Hitler.
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Spitfire
Mk. Vb US Spitfire Flown by F/O James Montgomery of 4FS/52 FG. Artwork
is "Impatient Virgin" (second aircraft featuring this artwork)
featuring a black haired bikini clad young lady. Paint scheme is
2 tone desert camo with a red spinner.
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Spitfire
Mk. XVI Trop flown by BAC Aviation, East Colne in 1997. Paint scheme
is overall white with red stripes along both sides of the fuselage and
across the top of the wings with a red spinner and red canopy frame.
Click on
images below to see larger images
The quality of these decals is
first class. The decals themselves are clearly printed and in perfect
register. Some decals come in 2 layers to ensure perfect registration. You
get one full set of stencils as well as national insignia. There are 4
pages of instruction sheets showing decal placement and camo layout. The
exact colour is not given for the BAC Spitfire....looks like white...possibly
Gloss white.....but the colour is not mentioned. The blue Spitfire is
painted Oxford Blue.
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'm very impressed
with the variety of paint schemes and Spitfires featured on this decal
sheet.....and of course you also get the Douglas Bader Spitfire Mk Va from the
summer of 1941 as well as the American Desert camo Spitfire.
I would like to
thank Lifelike
Decals for
providing me with this review sample.
Steve
Bamford
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