Siam Scale Decals

1/48 T-6G Texan  Royal Thai Air Force decal sheet

Product # SNN48015

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Sept 18 2003

 

 

 

Siam Scale is a decal company based in in the Far East and their decals focus mostly on Air Forces of the Far East, but they also do decals for aircraft of other Air Forces....such as Israel.  This 1/48 decal sheet focuses on  four different T-6's of the Royal Thai Air Force.  There are enough stencils included to build 1 of the 4 planes featured on this decal sheet.

Aircraft #1 is a T-6 plane #2201finished in a bare metal paint scheme.  Markings include a raging bull on both sides of the fuselage below the canopy.  The engine cowl is red and the tail/rudder have blue and white checkers and the anti glare panel in front of the canopy is black. 

Aircraft #2 is a T-6 plane #2225 finished in a bare metal paint scheme.  Markings are a yellow shark on both sides of the fuselage below the canopy.  The engine cowl an forward part of the tail are red and the anti glare panel in front of the canopy is black. 

Aircraft #3 is a T-6 plane #4311 finished in a bare metal paint scheme.  Markings are a cobra snake on both sides of the fuselage below the canopy.  The engine cowl is black as is the anti glare panel in front of the canopy.

Aircraft #4 is a T-6 plane #4331 finished in a bare metal paint scheme.  Markings are a Ancient Thai warrior on both sides of the fuselage below

 the canopy.  The engine cowl is black as is the anti glare panel in front of the canopy.

The decals are clearly printed.  They are a bit thicker than most decals, but they aren't overly thick and should settle down just fine....I don't see this as a problem.  The colour of the decals looks very good and the detail on the Cobra nose art and other nose art is very clear.  

Because these decals are from the Far East....the instruction sheet refers to one of the Far Eastern Brand of paints.  This shouldn't be much of an issue, but you will have to dig up a conversion chart of some sort to figure out the paint colours if your local hobby shop doesn't stock this brand of paint.  There are 8 different colours of paint mentioned on the instruction sheet.  The instruction sheet doesn't fully show the right side of the fuselage.......so you'll have to do some educated guessing about markings on that side of the fuselage, but the top and bottom views show the right side of the fuselage probably has the same markings as the left side

 of the fuselage.  Go slow on the instructions to avoid making any mistakes.

All in all a nice set of decals of the Royal Thai Air Force T-6's and I recommend these to anyone wanting to add a Royal Thai Air Force T-6 to their display case.

I'd like to thank Siam Scale Decals for sending me this review sample.

Steve

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Instruction Sheet

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford