Linden Hill Decals

1/48 Turkmenistan Air Force decal sheet

Product # LHD48022

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Aug 8 2011

 

This new decal sheet from Linden Hill Decals is part of their Post-Soviet Air Forces series and focuses on the aircraft flown by the Turkmenistan Air Force including the Mi-24P, MiG-25PD, MiG-29, MiG-29UB, Su-25 and the Su-25UB.

This decal sheet features 11 different aircraft flown by the Turkmenistan Air Force.  You get a wonderful variety of camo schemes.

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The aircraft included on this decal sheet include the following:

  • Mi-24P Hind 'Blue 22' wearing a Yellow Green/Very Dark Green camo over Saturated Sky Blue undersides.

  • Mi-24P Hind 'Blue 24' wearing a Light Green/Medium Green camo over Saturated Sky Blue undersides.

  • Mi-24P Hind 'Blue 01' wearing a Desert Sand/Dark Green camo over Saturated Sky Blue undersides.

  • MiG-29 9-13 Fulcrum C 'Red 25' wearing a Light Gray/Gray Green camo overall.

  • MiG-29 9-13 Fulcrum C 'Red 27' wearing a Light Blue/Gray Navy Blue/Navy Blue camo overall.

  • MiG-29UB Fulcrum B 'Red 61' wearing a Blue/Gray Navy Blue/Navy Blue camo overall.

  • MiG-29UB Fulcrum B 'Red 62' wearing a Light Gray/Gray Green camo overall.

  • MiG-25PD Foxbat 'Blue 25' wearing Air Superiority Gray overall.

  • Su-25 Frogfoot 'Blue 14' wearing a Beige/Dark Green camo over Bright Blue undersides.

  • Su-25UB Frogfoot 'Blue 53' wearing a Beige/Dark Green camo over Bright Blue undersides.

The 10 pages of instructions include multiple view colour profiles and photos of each aircraft with camo schemes.  Some history of Turkmenistan and the structure of the Turkmenistan Air Force is included and info about which countries overhauled some of these jet which helps to explain their different camo schemes.  All this will help you understand the different camo schemes.  Colours are called out in AKAN paint #'s as well as the approx. FS #.

The decals are clearly printed on one decal sheet and look excellent. The MiG-25PD Foxbat 'Blue 25' includes bulldog artwork.  The national insignia come in two parts to get the registration perfect and you get quite a few national insignia which will permit you to build more than one aircraft on this decal sheet.

Linden Hill Decals are the experts when it comes to markings for Soviet built aircraft and this decal sheet is another in a long line of top quality decals from Linden Hill Decals.  This sheet gives you some very colorful camo choices for the different aircraft used by the Turkmenistan Air Force.  I'm a big fan of building models from a  variety of countries, so this sheet is very interesting to me.

I would like to thank Linden Hill Decals for providing me with this review sample.  You can buy this decal sheet directly from the Linden Hill Imports website.

Steve Bamford

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Photos and text © by Steve Bamford