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1/32 Le Curtiss H-75 dry transfer decal sheet |
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product # CRP32004 |
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Available from Design & Marketing Int'l |
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Review by Steve Bamford on Sept 9, 2005 |
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This Contact Resine dry transfer decal sheet from Design & Marketing Int'l contains markings for 6 different 1/48 Le Curtiss H-75. These are dry transfer decals made by Hobby decals, so you know the quality is going to be very high. The first aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A-1 #67 from I/4 FG, 4th Squadron flown by Adjudant Pierre Villey at Reims during July 1939. The paint scheme is blue/green/brown on top with light blue on the underside. Artwork on the side of the fuselage is a black stick person running on a yellow background. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes with a white "7" on the forward part of the tail. The second aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A-3 #204 from I/5 FG, 4th Squadron flown by Lt. Jean Rey from Suippes on May 18 1940. The paint scheme is blue/green/brown on top with light blue on the underside. Artwork on the side of the fuselage is a brown and orange triangle with a bird on it. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes with a white "3" with an orange background on the forward part of the tail. The third aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A-1 #7 from I/5 FG, 1st Squadron flown by Lt. Edmond Marin La Meslee at Reims during the summer 1939. The paint scheme is overall natural metal. Artwork on the side of the fuselage is a brown and orange triangle with a bird on it. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes with a orange "2" with an background on the forward part of the tail. |
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| The fourth aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A-3 #279 from GC II/3, 3rd Squadron flown by Sergent chef Antoine Casenobe from Marignane in Feb 1940. The paint scheme is blue/green/brown on top with light blue on the underside. |
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Artwork on the side of the fuselage is a devil flying a broom. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes with a white "7" on the forward part of the tail. There is also white text on the fuselage by the windscreen that reads "Fan-Fan-La-Tulipe".
The fifth aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A #237 from Groupe de marche 2/62 from Rabat Jan 1943. The paint scheme is tan/brown on top with light blue on the underside. Artwork on the side of the tail is a black flag on the tail. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes.
The sixth aircraft is a Curtiss H-75A #154 from FG II/5 with 1st Squadron from Casablanca in 1942. The paint scheme is blue/green/brown on top with light blue on the underside. The engine cowling ring an forward part of the tail is red and yellow striped. Artwork on the side of the tail is a North American native chief in full feathered head dress on the tail. The rudder has red/white/blue vertical stripes. There is a large white "4" on the side of the rear fuselage. There are red/white/blue stripes on the underside of the wings.
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page of coloured instruction sheets, but they don't specifically mention
the colours to use and they include a side view of each aircraft.
I'd like to thank Design & Marketing Int'l for providing me with this review sample...visit their site for this and other products. Design
& Marketing Int'l are the official exclusive importer and
distributor in Canada, USA and Mexico for a large and ever growing
selection of products from Contact Resine, Redux and Montex. Go to
their website to buy this and other products from these and other brands
of detail products.
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Photos and text © 2005 by Steve Bamford
