Diego

...interestingly, one of the last operational IRAIF RF-5A has been modernized during the 2000s a.o. with the installation of a recce equipment from a RF-5E obtained from one of the users of the Tigereye. During the late 1970s, Iran placed several large orders for aircraft and other equipment to be delivered during the early 1980s...that would make the IIAF a formidable and ultra-modern air force: - 12 RF-4Es (slatted) to be equipped to the most modern standard ( already build but reduced to spare parts after the islamic revolution ) - F-4G Wild Weasels with respective anti-radar missiles, - F-16A/B Fighting Falcons ( some already build but sold to Israel after the revolution ), - E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft... Greetings Diego

Well, the RF-5E will be a bit difficult, as the IIAF never got this version...but markings for several interesting IIAF / IRIAF F-5As and RF-5As are already in the preparation stage. greetings Diego

Hu-131 seems indeed to be a very good choice, taking into consideration the scale effect In fact, it's the same color as on the squadron badge on KA-D. Later (ca. 1958) RDAF' PR flight RF-84F Thunderflashes ( a.o. 53-7458 KA-A, 53-7571 KA-E, 53-7574 KA-F ) had the whole tail painted with the same black and green motiv.

Finally some SAKR rockets as high quality elements ! Congratulations to Vespa Models for this release - it is worth noting that these rockets were also used on Egyptian AF Meteors F.8, Vampires, MiG-15s and Yak-11s... Greetings Diego

With the announced release of the Airfix Meteor F.8/FR.9 around June and the recently re-release of the beautiful Airfix Meteor F.Mk 8 kit, we are now preparing a sheet covering some more "exotic" operators of this classic fighter, in both 1/48th and 1/72nd scales: HD48038 & HD72038 Gloster Meteor F.8 / FR.9 (6) -Meteor F.8, Royal Danish Air Force, 1952 - Dark Green / Dark Sea Grey / Medium Sea Grey camo with colorful "Lörn" unit insignia; -Meteor F.8, Royal Danish Air Force, 1954 - Dark Green / Dark Sea Grey / Medium Sea Grey camo with colorful "Lörn" unit insignia; -Meteor F.8, Egyptian Air Force, 1956 - Aluminium scheme; ( armed with 8 Sakr rockets - the same as used a.o. on EAF MiG-17Fs, MiG-15bis, Vampires and Yak-11s - they flew combat missions against Israeli positions in the Sinai during the October 1956 war) -Meteor F.8, Syrian Air Force, 1956 - Dark Green / Mid Stone / PRU Blue camo ( two SyAF Meteors were credited with the downing of a RAF recce Canberra over Syria in October 1956) -Meteor FR.9, Syrian Air Force, 1956 - Dark Green / Mid Stone / PRU Blue camo; ( with overpainted camera windows, used as fighter-bombers) -Meteor FR.9, Ecuadorian Air Force, 1975 - Aluminium scheme with red nose and intakes as well as a blue nose stripe with blue & red stars. ( with overpainted camera windows, used solely as fighter-bombers, armed with HVAR rockets) - the very last Meteor in active operational service worldwide. Although some of the Meteors operated by the a.m. Air Forces were available in decal form in the past ( unfortunately with many errors ), currently available informations allow to correctly recreate these birds in much more detail...and, in fact, we selected interesting very interesting and colorful individual airplanes never previously covered either by kit manufacturers or aftermarket, with gorgeous unit markings etc. The decals are scheduled for release during April, in time for the release of Airfix F.8/FR.9 Meteor kit in 1/72nd scale. More details soon Greetings Diego

Great to hear you got the photo-tank. It is however important to check the dimensions, as far as I remember, this item has been based on Hasegawa tanks...then it was really the only game in town in this scale. In such case the tank will be slimmer than the Platz tank...but you can simply cut off the nose ( be aware that this is a solid resin part and the window is only marked by an outline ) and put it on a Platz tank-copy... I can't wait to see the progress on your RDAF bird 🥰 Greetings Diego

Hi Steve, It's quite simple - RDAF RF-84Gs used two Fletcher tip tank adapted from T-33s - One standard and one with camera nose. Yugoslavia and Holland also used the same configuration, the Yugoslav installed cameras on both tanks of these Thunderjets. The simplest solution would be to use the tanks from Italeri / Platz T-33 kits ( you can make a resin copy, for example ) and modify the nose of one of them following the drawings from the decal sheet. Please note also that one of the birds featured on the sheet wears full camo, the other one being in NMF, but with an entire replacement wing from another, camouflaged machine. Greetings Diego

- HD48012 Su-7 BMK/BKL Fitter A - HD48005 MiG-17F/Lim-5 Fresco C - HD72042 Su-7 BMK/BKL Fitter A were just released and are now available.

As Michael wisely said, the Mars rocked pods were used only on some LSK/NVA ( East German) MiG-17F and on Polish Lim-6 with tail parachutes. Egyptian AF MiG-17Fs were modified with two underfuselage bomb racks as well as two SURA rocket lauchers ( a licence produced Hispano Suiza rockets that were also used on Spanish Buchones ) under each wing, already used on EAF Meteors, Vampires, MiG-15s and Yak-11s. It's strange that AMMO adds a "polish" package in the Egyptian/Syrian boxing, instead of an specific EAF weapons package. Anyway, the markings in this EAF/SyAF boxing are strange: - The roundels for the "Syrian" example should have 3 stars ( till 1972-73 ), or no stars at all. The roundel with two stars was used by the UAR ( United Arab Repubic - a Union between Syria and Egypt) during the 1960s and by the modern Syrian AF since the 1980s. Anyway, the Syrian MiGs were never camouflaged in sand and brown,. Their camo was sand and olive green and, later, reddish sand and dark blue-green. - The EAF "Nile Valley" camo used a black-green color fading to olive green and pale sand, with green-grey "meanders" between them. Sometimes, these colors were reversed with "meanders" being painted in sand color. Several Frescos and MiG-21Fs also used a darker "Nile Delta" camo, with olive green and grey green only ( without sand ) - Re. Angolan examples - they used a tricolor stripes on the tail instead of the flag. - Re. East German MiG-17Fs - the red codes have really strange shapes. Normally these digits were applied using standardized masks with only very few exceptions. Colors were red for combat aircraft and black for trainers, helos, transports, etc. - Re. North Korean Fresco C - North Korea never applied national insignia on the upper surfaces of the wings. It seems that the people preparing the decals used really old references, made obsolete by modern research. Also, regarding the included -beautiful - Russian helmet...AFAIK, most pilots flying the Fresco still wore the older, leather flight helmets due to the little space available under the MiG-17 canopy. Greetings Diego

Hi-Decal just released some alternative marking options for AMMO beautiful MiG-17Fs and Lim-5s: ( correcting several major errors from the kit decals ) Hi-Decal HD48005 MiG-17F/Lim-5 HDL HD48005 MiG-17F/Lim-5 Fresco C

A Tempest TT.Mk.5 including the target towing equipment would be surely welcome...

Hi-Decal will release decals for this beauty covering several colorful overseas users: Source: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/HD72038?result-token=2CBiK HD72038 Gloster Meteor F Mk.8 / FR Mk.9 F.Mk.9: - Royal Danish Air Force, 1953 - Dark Green / Dark Sea Grey / Medium Sea Grey camo with colorful "Lörn" unit insignia; - Egyptian Air Force, 1956 - Overall High Speed Silver scheme with black /white id. stripes - armed with 8 Sakr rockets, the same as used a.o. on EAF MiG-17Fs, MiG-15bis, Vampires and Yak-11s; - Syrian Air Force, 1956 - Dark Green / Mid Stone / PRU Blue camo, credited with the downing of a RAF Canberra during the Suez crisis; FR Mk.9: - Syrian Air Force, 1956 - Dark Green / Mid Stone / PRU Blue camo - one of only two delivered and used as fighter-bombers; - Ecuadorian Air Force, 1974 - High Speed Silver scheme with red nose, intakes and blue/red starred stripe on the nose - with overpainted camera windows, used as fighter- bombers, armed with HVAR rockets. The very last single seat Meteor in active service.

Here you will find an up to date listing including all currently available sheets as well as some upcoming items: Hi-Decal sheets in 1/48th & 1/72nd scales

...also, our Hawker Hunter sheets are on the final preparation stage and will go to print in the near future. We have made a small change and included an Omani AF Hawker Hunter in the sand and brown wrap around camouflage scheme tested during 1979. Omans' Hunters were received from Jordan in the standard RAF ( dark green/grey/ silver) scheme and were repainted in 1979-80 in a standard grey/dark grey camo. However, in the late 1979 3 aircraft received different experimental schemes for test purposes. One two seater and one FGA.9 were repainted in desert wrap around schemes, another FGA.9 receiving a highly attractive "scalloped" camo scheme in grey tones. During many years, it has been considered that the single seat desert camouflaged bird was an urban legend, but now there are color photos confirming this scheme. It is however worth noting that the illustrations and profiles showing "825" wearing a desert scheme and old, big Omani roundels are a product of phantasy...the real bird having only a small Omani shield on the tail... So now we have: HD48029 & HD72059 : Hawker Hunter F.4 / FGA.9 / T.66 - F.52 (F.4) Peruvian AF in dark green/ocean grey and silver camouflage, with colorful unit insignia, - F.51 (F.4) Royal Danish AF dark green/ocean grey and silver camouflage, with colorful unit insignia, - F.51 (F.4) Royal Danish AF in overall olive green scheme, - FGA.76 (FGA.9) Somali AF in sand & brown desert scheme and Soviet K-13 (AA-2 Atoll) AAMs, - FGA.73 (FGA.9) Omani AF with experimental, assymetrical, scalloped edge grey / dark grey disruptive camouflage, - FGA.73 (FGA.9) Omani AF with experimental sand & brown desert wrap around camouflage. - FGA.71 (FGA.9) Chilean AF in sand & brown camouflage and Shafrir II AAMs, - FGA.71 (FGA.9) Chilean AF in light blue & medium blue camouflage, converted into a strategic recce platform, - T.72 (T.66) Chilean AF in tree tone sand / brown / green camouflage, with a "Mirage-kill" marking,

Around January 15, 2024 we will re-release our popular, sold out sheet HD48005 MiG-17F/Lim-5 Fresco C, with markings for * 2 Polish licence built Lim-5s :1023 in camo scheme and 1717 with "last Lim / Last flight" special farewell scheme * 2 Egyptian MiG-17Fs: 2147 in 3 tone Nile Valley camo scheme and 2728 in the green-grey and olive green "Nile Delta" scheme, both operating during the october 1973 war against Israel, * 02, an ex-Syrian MiG-17F test flown in Israel, * C24, an Angolan AF MiG-17F in olive green and sand, during the Angolan civil war. HD48005 MiG-17F/Lim-5