Hi-Decal 2024-25 News and Upcoming Projects. Next releases: Gloster Meteor F.8/FR.9 (05/24) and Hawker Hunter (08/24)

[Diego]

21 hours ago, SleeperService said:

Have you an up-to-date stock list please? The site you used to link to appears not to be updating.

Good call on the desert scheme option I think many will be happy to see that.

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

Edited December 31, 2023 by Diego

[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.

[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

Edited March 6 by Diego