The one thing I've found about decals is that there is no telling how many decals one will need. Some people choose to buy multiples of each aircraft decal they can get their hands on, just in case they make a major mistake. I chose to go with one sheet of each, just because of "financial" tight-wad-ness. I would in actuality love to obtain 3 of each, 2 for building with and one for reference.
Lately I have been on an Aggressor kick which meant that I had to do a lot of catch-up with regards to collection of decal sheets. Luckily due to a number of fellow members on the A.R.C. board who were willing to sell me their Aggressor sheets or in one case outright give them to me (thanks, Gerard)I was finally able to obtain 1 copy of each decal sheet. So far I will be looking forward to building each Aggressor aircraft that I can possibly make out of each sheet.
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These decals are Superscale's offerings of F-16N decals. Unfortunately they may or may not be as accurate as Twobob's F-16N decals which I would have loved to have collected. |
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These are the NSAWC Viper decals (48-069) from Two-Bobs. These are incredibly detailed. And the info sheets that come with the decal set (as with every decals that Bob Sanchez does) are incredible. These F-16A/Bs were embargoed Block 15 F-16s that were to go to Pakistan but went to the US Navy in order to shore up their DACTS program. |
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This is the Top Gun Tinker Toys decal sheet (48-018) detailing A-4E/Fs that were in service with the USN Top Gun program until their retirement. These A-4s also include the Top Gun movie A-4 that depicted the number "55" that Jester flew, however the actual pilot is on the decal sheet, not the faux pilot in Top Gun. |
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These decals are for the VFC-12 Fighting Omars (48-016), a dissimlar air combat training squadron that flies an assorted group of F-5Es F/A-18s and F-16s out of NAS Fallon. They are normally a Reservist unit flying F-5Es and are exclusively dedicated to their task of Air Combat Training for fleet aviators. These decals simulate the Su-27 Flanker and MiG 29 camoflage used by the Soviet forces. |
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These decals are the Fighting Saints of VFC-13 (48-014) which have desert camo. The sheet is called "Desert Cats" which is because of the airframe being nicknamed the Tiger II. These are interesting camoflage schemes and I look forward to working on them. The F-5E has been in service since the 1970s when Top Gun was initiated by Captain Frank Ault. However no Navy F-5E frames exist as far as I know anymore because the Navy aircrews tended to fly their airframes to the maximum limit, thus stressing the frames beyond their lifetime useage in a short amount of time necessitating their retirement. These F-5E airframes are from the USAF. |
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(48-015) details the Blue Schemes of the F-5Es that the VFC-13 Saints fly. The F-5Es are flown hard by the Fighting Saints and will probably be replaced by the F-5N (ex-Swiss Air Force retreads) that are coming home to the CONUS. |
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Thanks to 98Phan from A.R.C. I've now got the Two-Bobs decals for the VFA-41 Super-Bugs (F-18F Super Hornets) for the 1/48 F-18F. And I'm looking forward to building that one. Thanks again, Peter.
Brian Marbrey sent me a set of decals for winning a trivia question on F-14 Block Numbers. VF-Decals primarily does United States Navy Squadrons and is dedicated to HIGH quality decals. I certainly intend to do business with Brian as far as any decals I may have need of for my F-14s and F-18s and probably for any squadron of any Navy fighter-attack type that he may be planning on doing.And just so no-one gets the idea that they want to try to scam Brian out of paying for these decals, I PURPOSELY scanned them in at 75 dpi. So if anyone wants to do that...they'll get something incredibly grainy.
I received 3 sets decals from Ken Middleton, the two Superscale decals and the Detail&Scale VF-41 Sukhoi Killers in 1/72nd. These are great decals and I appreciate them.
And I also appreciate Kozlok for sending me the VF-41 70s era decals. This will supply me in VF-41 1/48 scale aircraft for years to come.