CVW-7 - Carrier Air Wing 7, USS George Washington CVN-73 - 1996 by Zoltan Pocza
Brand: Starfighter
Scale: 1/350
Writer: Zoltan Pocza

 

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For those not familiar with Starfighter Decals, they offer waterslide decals for plastic model kits, Resin accessories to compliment the line of decals offered from 1/72 Cockpit sets to Resin Aircraft for your Aircraft Carrier Models, and now plastic model kits that compliment the products they offer.

In this review we're going to check out their awesome 1/350 Carrier Air Wing 7 Decals which are absolutely fantastic and must have items to anyone who wants to build a realistic and accurately detailed USS George Washington from 1996 in this scale!



CVW-7, USS George Washington CVN-73 - 1996

It makes no sense to provide decals for these small aircraft if they are not accurate to the given timeframe and carriers and if they don't cover the whole air wing. Starfighter Decals is producing decal sets that does all the above in really good quality! We have to remember that 1/350 aircraft are really small and it's really challenging to produce good quality decals that are fitting properly to improve their appearance! Also obviously it's more challanging to apply these decals to the small birds, though, it's really rewarding if you see the results!

Now let's see what is included on this decal set and the plastic zip bags! First at all we can find 5 sheets of decals covering the units of the whole air wing, also the instructions how to use them. Every aircraft in the wing is covered with unique modex numbers and proper paintschemes. The CAGs are colorful and properly represented. Below you can see a magnified view about a VAW-121 Hawkeye. If you keep in mind the size of this you have to admit that it's a really detailed and properly printed! On the rest of the sheets you can find all the LoViz decals for the "regulars". Anti glare paintings, anti skip surfaces are also provided just like all the standard and important markings that makes sense in this scale. As a nice addition you can find some decals to be applied on the Vikings fan face showing the fan blades - it's printed in silver. Another thing to mention the provided COD decals which is a really nice touch!

Now let's see what units are included:

  • VF-143 Pukin' Dogs F-14B Tomcat
  • VFA-136 Knighthawks - F/A-18C Hornet
  • VFA-131 Wildcats - F/A-18C Hornet
  • VAQ-140 Patriots - EA-6B Prowler
  • VA-34 Blue Blasters - A-6E Inruder
  • VAW-121 Bluetails - E-2C Hawkeye
  • VS-31 Topcats - S-3B Viking
  • HS-5 Night Dippers - SH-3
  • VRC-40 Rawhides - C-2A Greyhound

Below you can see the large amount of decals provided on the sheets!


Thank you for the review sample to Starfighter Decals!
www.starfighter-decals.com

      
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  Photos and text © 2009 by Zoltan Pocza

April 25, 2009

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