Begemot Russian Air & Space Force Board Numbers 2018 (48056) 1:48

[Mike]

Russian Air & Space Force Board Numbers 2018 (48056)

1:48 Begemot Decals

 

 

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the Russian Federation Air Force took over, and because of the fact that every air force has more than a few of their aircraft, tail codes and serial numbers are always present in some shape or form.  When we buy a model, we don’t necessarily want to depict the subjects that are on the decal sheet, or we might just screw up the kit decals because we’re fallible humans.  If you’re a lover of Russian aircraft, you will be interested in this set of decals, which will keep you going for quite some time.

 

The set arrives in Begemot’s usual Ziploc bag, and behind the cover sheet are a rather impressive six sheets of decals with a printed area of 6” x 8.5” inside the usual red border, plus the little Begemot hippo logo in the bottom right corner.  Three pages are essentially the same codes in blue, red and yellow, with a white sheet that has smaller codes and outline digits, plus a bunch of RF- characters in various sizes.  The last two sheets are mostly black with white parts, and white outlined black codes, plus BKC РОССИИ, which is a shortened variant of Russian Air Force in Cyrillic (AFAIK) all of which are outlined in white.

 

 

 

 

As we've come to expect from Begemot, the decals are well-printed with good registration, sharpness and colour density, with a thin matt carrier film cut close to the printed areas.  If you wanted to read the instructions but the photo above is straining your eyes, you can see a PDF of it here.

 

Incidentally, if you also want to pronounce the company name better, you could run it through Google Translate, which gives the “Bedge-mot” or similar.

 

Conclusion

If you think you’re going to blow through these codes soon, you must either build a whole heap of models, or you’ve got ambitious plans.

 

Highly recommended.

 

 

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