Siam Scale Decals

1/72 F-84G Thunderjet  Royal Thai Air Force decal sheet

Product # SNN72007

Product Article by Steve Bamford on July 23 2003

 

 

 

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

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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