Hans-Joachim
Marseille, the virtuoso of aerial marksmanship, is a favorite of modelers in all
scales. With new information being presented in the Airpower Editions by
Jim Kitchens and John Beaman we have some of the best research on his aircraft
available. Based on this information Lifelike
Decals
now provides markings for his four Bf-109F-4/Trops and his personal Kubelwagen,
OTTO.
This sheet is
available in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale. Previously if you wanted to build
Marseille’s Kubelwagen in any scale you had to buy the Sweet 1/144th scale
Bf-109 just to get the markings in 1/72nd and 1/48th scale which wasn’t cost
effective if you didn’t build the little model. Well now you can build it with
all the colorful creatures placed around the name. For the 1/32nd scale
sheet there are decals for the 1/35th scale Tamiya Kubelwagen.
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images below to see larger images
Each sheet is
included on two sheets. The main sheet provides the national markings, the
four distinct versions of Yellow 14 and some of the stencils. The smaller
sheet provides the colorful stencils and the characters for the Kubelwagen.
There are enough stencils to do one aircraft.
The instruction
sheet is a one sided 8 x 10 sheet of paper with side views of the four aircraft
and the four side view of the Kubelwagen. The upper and lower wings are
also included. You really don’t need anything more than that.
Don’t miss the small note on W. Nr. 8673 with its G style propeller.
The decals are
beautifully printed in perfect register and with good color saturation.
They are extremely thin and will look great on the whatever model you use.
So if you are
building a Bf-109F-4/Trop, in particular Hans-Joachim Marseille, these are the
best sheets around. They are based on the most current research, perfect
decals and with the addition of the Kubelwagen make these sheets well worth the
price of admission. Don’t forget to tell you armor modeler friends who
may be looking for something different for their Kubelwagens.
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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