KursadA Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 (edited) Folks, I am glad to announce the start of something I had in mind for a long time: the "Global Air Power" series. This will be a series of decal sheets that I plan to keep on regularly releasing, roughly at a rate of once every six weeks. This series will cover aircraft and countries that are "off the beaten path"; and it will be closely tied to current global political events and conflicts. Many of these subjects will be stuff that many other companies will not even consider. This series will be exclusively available from the Caracal Models web site only. I will be doing each sheet in both 1/72 and 1/48, in fairly limited numbers and absolutely no reprints. As always, they will be silk-screen printed by a high-quality manufacturer such as Microscale, Cartograf and such. The first sheet in this series will be "CD48010: Global Air Power - 1: Pakistani Air Force JF-17 & F-16". Pakistan has been in the forefront of international politics for a long time, and its stability is critical to peace in the region and the world at large. PAF commands a respectable air power, flying several different blocks of F-16s and the Chinese/Pakistani JF-17 "Thunder" among other types. Pakistani F-16s have been covered in decal form before, but I am not aware of any decals for operational JF-17s. This aircraft has the potential of being the Mig-21 of the 21st century; offering capability close to F-16 at a fraction of the price. Trumpeter and Bronco make excellent kits of the JF-17 in both 1/48 and 1/72 scale. The subjects on the sheet will be: -JF-17 Thunder 16 Sqn "Black Panthers" -JF-17 Thunder 26 Sqn "Black Spiders" -F-16A/B 9 Sqn "Griffins" (options for one F-16A and one F-16B) -F-16A/B 11 Sqn "Arrows" (options for one F-16A and one F-16B) -F16C/D Block 52+ 5 Sqn "Falcons" (options for one CFT-equipped F-16C and one CFT/spine equipped F-16D Block 52+) Most of the artwork is already finished, and I will be posting profiles this weekend. As always, let me know what you think and whether you have any suggestions for future sheets in this series. Edited November 30, 2011 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JackMan Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 I definitely want those 1/72 Pakistani F-16 decals!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Here here....3 sets.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
falcon91352 Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Awesome! I want both sheets in 1:48! Greetings Christian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dingo Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I will buy it too in 1:72 Have you recieved the Email i've sent you? (Egyptian F-16) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingoalie Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Awesome! I look forward to the 1/72 JF-17 decals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Finally some paki F-16 decals! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Finally some paki F-16 decals! Zotz also released some....way back when...as part of the VV#1 sheet...hard to find in 1/48 now. They also only covered the #14 and #11 Squadrons ...and not the new griffins/arrows tail schemes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Zotz also released some....way back when...as part of the VV#1 sheet...hard to find in 1/48 now. They also only covered the #14 and #11 Squadrons ...and not the new griffins/arrows tail schemes. Yeah i know but they are impossible to find now :( I´ve tried hard to no avail! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Draft profiles of the two JF-17s on the sheet: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
falcon91352 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 In order to get attuned to the new Caracal Pakistan AF sheet I show you here a couple of F-16A shots taken at the outstanding Centennial of the Turkish AF Air Show at Izmir-Cigl in June this year. Two F-16A (85726 and 85728)were alternately flown during the rehersals and Air Show Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Excellent photos, Christian. 85728 is one of the F-16A's that will be covered on the sheet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
falcon91352 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 85728 is one of the F-16A's that will be covered on the sheet. Excellent! Here an other shot of 85728 A couple of JF-17 shots will come soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
falcon91352 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 (edited) O.K., here are a couple of JF-17 shots coming. It was the first time I saw these fighters and I was quite impressed by the flying displays. As with the F-16A, two different airplanes were alternately used for training and displays during the airshow. A third JF-17 was in the Static Display. According to the very friendly PAF pilots and a spokesman, the JF-17 reaches 85% of the F-16 Block 52 in terms of power and manoeuverability. But in overall, the JF-17 has better performance thanks to its superior avionics in the latest configuration, which currently is impelmented in the PAF JF-17 force. Edited December 4, 2011 by falcon91352 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Awfully quiet on this one....!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 Awfully quiet on this one....!!! This sheet is almost ready, I will have a draft artwork soon. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyhawk174 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 (edited) Oh for Pete's sake you are going to take all of my money Kursad :) I have a model budget and it will be difficult to spread it to other suppliers if you keep doing stuff like this :D I picked up the Bronco kit of the JF-17 last year and was wondering what I could do with it since I was not too impressed with the decals. Edited February 4, 2012 by skyhawk174 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rustywelder Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 I will definitely be picking this one up. Thank you for doing such interesting subjects! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) Here is the final draft of the Pakistani JF-17 sheet (I will release JF-17 and F-16 as two separate sheets, both in 1/48 and 1/72 in *very* limited numbers. This will be available around the end of April. The next "Global Air Power" subject country will be North Korea. More on that later. Edited March 14, 2012 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
musangpulut Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 Nice sheet! I also hope you will include a few PAF F-16A that got a kills marking during Afgan war. Linky Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ESTRO Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) Amazing JF-17 Sheet! Can't wait for this one to become available, I've got a Bronco 1/48 JF-17 just gagging for these decals. I hope the *very* limited release won't be too limited. Keep up the great work! Edited March 15, 2012 by ESTRO Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ESTRO Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Is this sheet still on track for end of April? When abouts will pre-ordering start? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 Is this sheet still on track for end of April? When abouts will pre-ordering start? I will have the decals back from Microscale on April 24, and will hopefully start selling them within a week. I will set up the product details page and the preorder link sometime later today or tomorrow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
signals Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 4 of the JF-17s for me....I called it. Also, any word on the viper sheets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KursadA Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) The JF-17 sheets are here, and they look pretty good to me. I should have the pre-order link up sometime tonight, and start shipping early next week. These are the only accurate decals for JF-17s in actual, operational Pakistani service. Let's see how the Global Air Power series will work. Hopefully they will be successful, so I can continue the series and release decals for air forces and aircraft that are not likely to be covered by anyone else. Edited April 24, 2012 by KursadA Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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