toolo12 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Hello all, I had the honor last year to see the TuAF Turkish Stars aerobatic team doing their stuff. Since then i want to build one of them. I get the CA F-5A. I'm guessing there are no decals for them, am i right? I intend to paint the red stripes and red bird (in the bottom) by myself. The other signs will be printed. My question is what red is that red? Also, in what colors the cockpit is painted? TIA! Danny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Hello all,I had the honor last year to see the TuAF Turkish Stars aerobatic team doing their stuff. Since then i want to build one of them. I get the CA F-5A. I'm guessing there are no decals for them, am i right? I intend to paint the red stripes and red bird (in the bottom) by myself. The other signs will be printed. My question is what red is that red? Also, in what colors the cockpit is painted? TIA! Danny There are decals in 1/72 scale, but none that I know of in 1/48. The cockpit is painted just like any other NF-5A, nothing special there. Note that the individual airplane numbers and crew names are painted in white, so you'd better have access to an ALPS printer if you care about accuracy. FS 13136 would be close enough for the red color. You can probably buy a cheap PM 1/72 F-5A kit and use the Turkish Stars decals in that kit as a pattern; particularly when doing the "bird" (more accurately, the double-headed Seljuk eagle). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jay Chladek Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 I have one of the PM kits. While the plastic is "ehhh" the decals actually look decent and useable. They would probably work fine on an Esci kit or the Italeri reissue (best 1/72 F-5 out there IMHO). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andre Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 While the plastic is "ehhh" Which is, eh, one way of putting it.... On my example the fuselage and one piece wing look like they come from totally different kits. :-) Cheers, Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
2.0_Alpha Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Hi, if you're looking for decals, try here: http://www.babibimodel.com/joomla/index.ph...age=shop.browse I've no experience with them, at least you can pay by paypal. Lots of Türk Yıldızları (Turkish Stars) decals in all scales. Tobias Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toolo12 Posted August 14, 2009 Author Share Posted August 14, 2009 Hi, Thanks to all for your help. Tobias, thanks so much for the link. Excellent stuff indeed. But when I made an order, i received a message when i tried to pay through Paypal: "This recipient does not accept payments denominated in WS_Error_XClick_Pref_Foreign_Currency. Please contact the seller and ask him to update his payment receiving preferences to accept this currency". What does it means? Thanks again. Danny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 It seems he doesn't accept whatever currency you chose or what the program chose for you. So now they want you to e-mail him and ask him to send an invoice with the correct currency. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scooter Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Hello all,I had the honor last year to see the TuAF Turkish Stars aerobatic team doing their stuff. TIA! Danny I saw them last year at the Hungarian Air Show in Kecskemet. The Stars were great! I was able to meet several of the pilots who were friendly and put on an awesome high speed/low show. I understand that the F-5s are ex-RNAF. I have pictures, but from about 1000 metres away. Email me if you'd like to see them. They are not close enough to model, but it sounds like you may like them. AC Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aerobat Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Tobias, Thanks for the babibimodel link! From their home page is the note that Paypal is new and "New payment method was currently. after order will come e-mail for payment." BTW Danny, a good place for info is airliners.net for the modern teams. Here's the listing for the Stars: Turkish Stars Gary Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toolo12 Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 Thanks all. Gary - thanks for the airliners.net link - was there allready... AC - i have enough pics to build the model. Thanks... About the payment - i drop a mail to Babibi model regarding the problem, they email me back with a direct link to Paypal payment. Bottom line - everything is OK. Tomorrow they'll send the decal sets. Thanks again all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orrin Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 This is a duplicate of a post I did in general discussions. I think it is more appropriate here. All: This is my first post, so if I am in the wrong place tell me. I apologize in advance for any rule breaking. I have recently acquired several PM Models Kit number PM-221, NF-5A, Turkish Stars. The red of the decal color and the suggested red paint colors are very different. The instruction suggests Model Master Insignia Red (and some others that are not readily available to check) which is not even close. The size of the decals is such that a difference in colors will clash big time. Please make suggestions as to how I can match the decal color with a paint color. My fallback is to experiment with adding drops of white to the Insignia Red, but I fear there are bits of other colors in there somewhere. ORRIN I seem to have posted in the wrong forum. I am going to duplicate as a reply to a related post in another forum This post has been edited by Orrin: A minute ago Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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