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Rocket & Missile Band Decals (FP650) 1:72 Fantasy Printshop Rockets and missiles. They have coloured bands applied to them alongside the stencils to signify the type of weapon and the ‘filling’ that is within them. Sometimes it’s as simple as whether they’re live ordnance that go bang, or training rounds that are often filled with concrete, other times it’s more complex, which although it varies at times between countries, the yellow ones tend to be live rounds. Often kits come with a set of stencils for the weapons, but older kits might not, so whether you didn’t get stencils or just want some different colours from the ones supplied, this set might be or interest. Oh, and you also might have screwed up the stencils that came with your kit, but we don’t talk about that. The decal sheet arrives in a small Ziploc bag, and within is a sheet of blue decal paper with bands in various colours and widths printed on it for you to cut to length and use on your models. You get yellow, blue, brown, silver, green and black, and the width of each one is given at the top of the line. You’ll need to don your spectacles for some of the informative text though, as the dot in the 0.4mm is hard to see with my old eyes, especially without the leading zero. Fortuitously, the narrower widths have been supplied in pairs, as they’re probably the most useful to the 1:72 modeller, but they go all the way up to 1mm in increments to suit most occasions, with a length that will last you quite a few missiles or bombs. Decals are printed in-house at Fantasy Printshop, which is a guarantee of good registration, sharpness and colour density, with a thin gloss carrier film cut close to the printed areas, and a piece of absorbent paper protecting them. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of
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Hi! Anniversary of Operation Musketeer/Mousquetaire/Kadesh/Suez war is approaching and I have been thinking about building one of more colourful aircraft taking part for a start. French F-84Fs and RF-84Fs, with various stripes and squadron badges, fit this description nicely. From gathered material I figured out about the identification stripes (single yellow stripe with black outline until the end of October, yellow-black stripes from 1st November on) and from available articles and books I learned about not so uniformed reality of improvised use of yellow paint on Cyprus, planes wearing both types of stripes and white, dark gray and possibly even blue stripes. Still, what bothers me the most are supposed Israeli markings on French fighter-bombers and reconnaissance planes, based in Israel. Israeli markings had been mentioned in several publications and there are plenty of colour profiles of both Thunderstreaks and Thunderflashes with stars of David, but I have not seen a single photo of the actual aircraft with such markings. In fact, all the photos of French planes in Israel bases show them marked with standard French cocarde. Any thoughts? Cheers Jure
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Having had a look around, I couldn't find evidence of a recent Tiger Sqn GB (correct me if I'm wrong). I think it's time to have another, and I propose that we include not only NATO but any squadron anywhere, anytime that's had a tiger as its emblem. Keeping in mind that a number of ex-WarPac airforces are now proud NATO members, I think it could be interesting. Note that there will be no requirement to do a full-on Tiger Meet themed aircraft - subtle fin-top stripes or a badge on the nose, as per in-service airframes would be acceptable. What say you all?
