Yellow-Wings Decals 1/72 Multi-Aircraft Series #2
By Matt Bittner
Yellow-Wings continues their release in the 1/72 Multi-Aircraft Series where they provide different aircraft on the same decal sheet. Personally I like this because it's a bit more of a different combination and if you have these models in your collection, then you can completely use a decal sheet, instead of having partial ones around while waiting to buy yet another model of the same subject.
This time around Yellow-Wings provide markings for:
- SB2U-2 Vindicator, VS-72 USS Wasp, CV-7, 1941: black tail; yellow cowl, fuselage and wing stripes; can be used on any Vindicator kit
- P-40B, 55th Pursuit Squadron, Hamilton Field, CA, 1940: finished in typical olive drab over neutral gray with a white spinner and two fuselage bands; any P-40B kit is recommended, but why would you use anything but the Airfix kit?
- SBD-2 #2106, "Midway Madness", USS Lexington, Jan/Feb 1941: lemon yellow tail with red on the upper part of the cowl; can be used on any Dauntless kit; however, the best kit being Hasegawa
- F3F-2, USN VF-6, USS Enterprise, 1937-1938; true blue tail with "section color" for the cowl, wing chevron and fuselage stripe (willow green is shown on the instructions); can be used with any F3F-2 kit, but the best one out there is from Special Hobby
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Decals are very nicely printed and appear to be in register, printed by Microscale.
So, if you're looking for different markings for any – or all – of these aircraft then definitely pick up this sheet. There are decals so you can build all four from this one sheet.
My thanks to Yellow-Wings Decals for providing this sheet for review.