ModelMaker

[Spey_Phantom]

for those who dont know this brand, its a polish company that specializes in decals, they have a very impressive range of decal offers for decent prices.

i recently bought theyre Belgian F-35A and F-16A Comete sets, and im impressed with the quality.


and today, they just announced and teased a few new sets, including a Polish Tiger Mig-21MF (32, 48 and 72nd scales) and today they have teased at least 4 new sets for Revell's A400M in 1/72 scale.

https://www.modelmaker.com.pl/news/list/

[kerick]

Looks very good.

[Spey_Phantom]

Modelmaker has announced the release of 3 new A400M decalsets, both in 144 and 72 scales.
one for a Turkish, one for a Kazakhstan and one Belgian/Luxembourg version.

these decals only come with nationality markings and country specific stencils, they advise to use the kit-supplied stenciling (no need to re-invent the wheel here). but thats okay with me, it keeps the price down. (5 euro's for the 144th scale, and 7,50 euro's for the 72nd scale).

http://www.modelmaker.com.pl/zapowiedz-premiery-na-moson-model-show/5/336/?i=en&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR5gT7T5F8XON_oYRy3UWyFcDskLcaz0OrCsvt_IED7pZkDWQ6OMxY-jD24tag_aem_1I5FUuhQKT6jGFm4yKTy5g

[Rick Lowe]

Interesting schemes there - thanks.

Lots of (well, some) Portuguese markings; I wonder if Rui has seen them?

[DogfighterZen]

Just came across this thread, Rick. Thanks for remembering me!  
I've known this company for a few years now, i've a bunch of their sheets for the PoAF and used a couple of them in the past. Very thin but they're easy to work with because they don't curl up as soon as they leave the backing paper so i'd say they're of good quality.
I did find a couple of small flaws like the incomplete registration number on their sheet for the PoAF's F-16AM that attended the 2011 NATO Tigermeet in Cambrai, France.
The number is supposed to be 15106 and on the decals it's 1506 and, although it's a small detail, it's still wrong and noticeable even in 1/72. The crosses in the roundels are off-center on the main sheet but they provide a smaller sheet with the corrected roundels. There's also the mistake on the instructions to use roundels registration numbers on the wings but those were deleted when they repainted each airframe after it had the MLU mods done and they weren't present on the jet that got the commemorative tail art for the 2011 NTM.
The F-16 drawing depicted on the instructions has the early 16S210 missile launchers on the wing tips and the smaller horizontal stabs of the early 1980s' F-16A blocks1, 5 and 10. Even those jets later had the stabs replaced with the bigger ones.
The PoAF's F-16AMs are all Block 15, none of them ever used the early stabs and had the early missile launchers replaced with modern LAU-129 launchers that can launch both the AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAM with the MLU program during the early 2000s, way before the 2011 NTM so, the drawing is a bit misleading for those who don't know the facts.

[Rick Lowe]

Always good to have 'Someone who knows how things should be'. 
Saves taking the instructions as gospel and then being disappointed when you have the correct data (I Know This Now...).

[DogfighterZen]

Always good to have 'Someone who knows how things should be'. 
Saves taking the instructions as gospel and then being disappointed when you have the correct data (I Know This Now...).

Not that it matters much in the Whif world... 
They're small mistakes, true, but i have seen a few modelers making these mistakes by following the decal sheet's instructions and the decals should be true to reality so, anyone wanting to represent the real thing will probably care if they're correct or not. I don't even care about the instructions cause if one just takes the time to look at a couple of pics, they'll see some of the errors right away, although the serial number is harder to notice as it's quite small.
If you follow real references you'll know what to use where but the serial is part of the bigger decal with the tail art so it's not easy to correct.
But the truth is that they do have good options for quite a few PoAF F-16s and are probably the best available in terms of quality.