Dry Transfer + Water-Slide
Decals with metal pitot tube
This new
decal sheet set from Hobby
Decal
includes dry transfer stencils and water-slide decals for the 1/72
JASDF F-4EJ Kai The 8th SQ.
Full
sized 1/1 aircraft have their stencils painted on using paint
stencils. Regular decals are ink printed on a clear carrier
film....which is fine, but they are not as accurate in look and
application as dry transfers for certain applications such as
stencils. This set gives you the perfect combination of decals
to do this jet up to obtain maximum realism.
Dry transfers are
reverse printed on a temporary clear film. When you
apply the stencils you lay the back of the stencils on the painted
surface of the model and then burnish (rub) them down through the
clear temporary carrier film. The dry transfer sticks to the
model and dis-engages from the clear carrier film. The decals are beautifully printed on
3 decal
sheets.
The dry transfers are
very clearly printed and will replicate the actual stencils on this
1/1 F-4 perfectly and the water slide decals will perfectly
replicate the larger painted markings on this jet.
This decal set
includes 3 types of decals.
- Dry transfers were
printed by Hobbydecal.com
- National insignia
and red bands were printed by Cartograf and are applied as water
slide decals.
- Red fuselage bands and
grey walkways are water slide decals.
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These dry transfer
stencils and water slide decals are very clearly printed and you will be
impressed. To apply the dry transfers you need a rounded tool to
rub the clear carrier film to burnish the dry transfer top the painted
surface of the model. A crochet needle....works good for this.
The 4 pages of
instructions are clear and include 4 views of this one aircraft that
shows stencil and marking placement. Plus a third cardboard page
which includes 9 steps of instructions. This page is cardboard to
give protection to the product and avoid bending during shipping.
The Hobby
Decal website
also has instructions on installing dry transfers.
It's very exciting to see
all these stencils........there are so many and on these two "JASDF F-4EJ Kai"
Phantoms. One very special feature
of the instruction sheets is that they are actually a large 2 sided
poster which you can see below. This poster is 16" (40.6cm)
wide and 22" (56cm) long. And this poster shows the placement
of each and every tiny stencil applied to this jet. The poster is
folded to fit in the decal package for shipping, but it is a very nice
poster on thick glossy paper.
If you want maximum
realism.......then these dry transfers and decals will give you amazing results.
Hobby Decal has a variety of dry transfers for a large variety of aircraft from
props to jets. If you bought this decal set you'd have one fantastic
Japanese Phantom with these markings by Hobby Decal.
You can buy this
decal set directly from the Hobby
Decal website.
Steve
Bamford
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