JBr Decals 1/144 Mighty Midgets
By Matt Bittner
In the current realm of 1/144 aircraft modeling, one company has ben producing a lot of aftermarket decals. That company is JBr Decals and they have released two sets of markings to go along with the recently-released Eduard 1/144 UTI MiG-15 "Midget". The first set consists of the following UTI MiG-15 markings (all finished overall in aluminum unless otherwise noted):
- #2832 of the Royal Cambodian Air Force (finished overall in green-grey)
- #101 of the Congolese Air Force
- #34 of the Bissau Guinean Air Force
- J-764 of the Indonesian Air Force
- TZ-366 of the Mali Air Force (finished in light grey, blue-grey and dark blue-green on top, and light blue underneath)
- #20 of the Mozambique Air Force (finished overall in light blue)
- NAF 601 of the Nigerian Air Force
- #306 of the North Korean Air Force
- #713918 of the Pakistan Air Force
- CC116 of the Somali Air Force (finished in beige and dark olive green on top, and aluminum on the bottom)
- CF-801 of the Sri Lankan Air Force
- U606 of the Ugandan People's Defence Air Force (finished in brown and dake blue on top, and light grey on the bottom)
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The second set of decals are for 13 aircraft (again, overall in aluminum unless otherwise noted):
- FI-57, Czechoslovak Air Force, 3rd Flight, 26th Fighter Regiment, 1957
- #2470, Czechoslovak Air Force, 30th Fighter Bomber Regiment
- f-11 of the Albanian Air Force
- #14 of the Cuban Revoloutionary Air and Air Defnse Force
- #106 of the GDR - Aikr Forces of the National People's Army
- MU-4 of the Finnish Air Force
- #203 of the Polish Navy
- #6010 of the Polish Navy (finished in yellow, blue-green, dark green and brown uppers and light blue undersides)
- #117 of the Polish Navy (this one has a yellow fin-tip)
- #1920 of the North Vietnamese Air Force
- #47 of the Soviet Air Forces
- #60 of the DOSSAF
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As with all JBr Decals, these are finished to a high standard, with excellent registration so are highly recommended. Since Eduard has released their 1/144 UTI MiG-15 as an "Overtree" (that is, a box with ONLY the plastic pieces in it; no decals, instructions, masks nor photoetch) you can purchase a number of these and use these two sets of decals with them. Soon you'll be amassing your own UTI MiG-15 1/144 airforce.
I suspect these decals will also work with the older Attack kit as well, if you have that one lying around.
Many, many thanks are sent to JBr Decals for sending the review samples. Now to build one (or 10)!