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RAF Op Telic
British Military Aircraft in Gulf War II / Iraqi Freedom 2003  Part 1

Air-Graphic Models, 1/72 scale

S u m m a r y :

Catalogue Number:

Air-Graphic Models Item No. AIR72-020 - RAF Op Telic - British Military Aircraft in Gulf War II / Iraqi Freedom 2003  Part 1

Scale:

1/72

Contents and Media:

Three decal sheets; A5 booklet of 16 pages; loose leaf model paint reference chart.

Price:

GBP£23.50 incl. shipping from Air-Graphics' website

GBP£29.60 EU Price (£24.67 Export Price) plus shipping available online from Hannants' website

Review Type:

First Look

Advantages:

A great range of markings, beautifully printed and with excellent instructions.

Disadvantages:

None noted except for the need to use kit stencilling and the sheer vast number of choices.

Conclusion:

This is an excellent set of decals for the modeller interested in Operation Telic and the RAF participation in this campaign.

Highly recommended.

Reviewed by Graham Carter

F i r s t L o o k

 

This monumental decal set will enable the modeller to build just about every RAF aircraft that served in this campaign, should he/she want to!

 

 

The double sheets are presented in a zip-lock sleeve and are accompanied by a forty page (!) A5 instruction booklet that makes the sleeve a pretty tight fit. It is the sort of set that would appeal to a group purchase as I would be amazed to see the whole set of 58 aircraft built by a single modeller. 

 

 

The decals are beautifully printed with great register, colour and density with little carrier film but, while a sheet contains all of the roundels and fin flashes to complete these aircraft, all of the stencils will need to come from the donor kits.

 

 

The subjects comprise Tornado GR4/4A ( 29 of them), Tornado F3 (10), Harrier GR.7 (8), Jaguar GR.3 (6), Nimrod (2) and Canberra PR.9 (3); too many individuals to list here! However, sufficient to say that the aircraft have a great variety of squadron markings, pin-up art and some with ‘shark-mouths’, even if most are in rather uninteresting grey schemes, except for the Camouflage Beige (used to be called Hemp {?}) Canberras and Nimrods. 

 

 

I would suggest a visit to the web-site to find out which aircraft are represented on the sheet. For each example there is a list of accessories from Air-Graphics to enhance or convert the kit. 

 

 

The full colour instructions give very clear location diagrams for the individual markings and a couple of generic drawings show stencil and generic mark locations.  Also useful is a card containing paint colour matches for Humbrol, Xtracolour, Hataka, ModelMaster, Gunze Sanyo, Tamiya and Lifecolor. Interspersed through the booklet are a small number of colour images of the subjects.

 

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This sheet comes highly recommended to those of you who are interested in this campaign and the RAF aircraft that took part in it, probably to be best purchased by a small group of you.

 

 

C o n c l u s i o n

 

This is an excellent set of decals for the modeller interested in Operation Telic and the RAF participation in this campaign. Highly recommended.

Thanks to Air-Graphic Models for the sample.

Text Copyright © 2022 by Graham Carter
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This Page Created on 10 February, 2022
Last updated 11 February, 2022

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