Siam
Scale is a decal company based in in the Far East and their decals focus
mostly on Air Forces of the Far East, but they also do decals for
aircraft of other Air Forces....such as Israel. This 1/72 decal
sheet focuses on five different F-84G's of the Royal
Thai Air Force. There are enough stencils included to build 2 of
the 5 planes featured on this decal sheet.
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Instruction
Sheet
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Aircraft #1
is a F-84G plane #1216
series #839
finished in a bare metal paint scheme. Markings are colourful and
include a red Lions head on the sides of the forward fuselage and
directly behind that is a blue diagonal band bordered in yellow
with with white stars Wing tip fuel tanks have blue/white
stripes with yellow borders.
Aircraft #2
is a F-84G plane #1215
series #921
finished in a bare metal paint scheme. Markings are colourful and
include a red Lions head on the sides of the forward fuselage and
directly behind that is a blue diagonal band with with white
stars Wing tip fuel tanks have blue/white stripes. Below the red
Loins Head is the text "Honey Sam".
Aircraft #3
is a F-84G plane #1241
series #348
finished in a bare metal paint scheme. Markings are colourful and
include a pouncing Tiger on the sides of the forward
fuselage.
Wing tip fuel tanks have blue/white stripes. Below the pouncing
Tiger is the text "Honey Sam". On
the tail is a crest with wings and the number 12.
Aircraft
#4 is a F-84G plane
#1227 series #232 finished in a bare metal paint scheme. Markings are
colourful and include a pouncing Tiger on the sides of the forward
fuselage. Wing tip fuel tanks have blue/white stripes. On the
tail is a blue band with white stars.
Aircraft #5
is a F-84G plane #4314 series #582 finished
in a bare metal paint scheme. Markings are colourful and include a
attacking Cobra smake on the sides of the forward fuselage. Wing tip
fuel tanks have blue/white stripes. On the tail is a green band with
a round white centre with a Cobra snake in the centre.
The decals are clearly
printed. They are a bit thicker than most decals, but they aren't
overly thick and should settle down just fine....I don't see this as a
problem. The colour of the decals looks very good and the detail on
the tiny Tiger's stripes and the Cobra nose art is very clear.
Because these
decals are from the Far East....the instruction sheet refers to one of the
Far Eastern Brand of paints. This shouldn't be much of an issue, but
you will have to dig up a conversion chart of some sort to figure out the
paint colours if your local hobby shop doesn't stock this brand of
paint. There are 8 different colours of paint mentioned on the
instruction sheet. The instruction sheet doesn't fully show the
right side of the fuselage.......so you'll have to do some educated
guessing about markings on that side of the fuselage, but the top and
bottom views show the right side of the fuselage probably has the same
markings as the left side of the fuselage.
Go slow on the instructions to avoid making any mistakes.
All
in all a nice set of decals of the Royal Thai Air Force F-84G's and I
recommend these to anyone wanting to add a Royal Thai Air Force F-84G to
their display case.
I'd like to thank Siam
Scale Decals for
sending me this review sample.
Steve Bamford
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