Sky Models 1/48
F4U Corsair

I was recently cruising through my local hobby establishment and was shown a few examples of decals from a company called Sky Models in Italy. I was impressed with what I saw and snapped a few up for myself. Here is one of them.

This release covers a variety of bent-wing birds, the F4U Corsair. This sheet is densely packed with very nice markings printed by Cartograf. Here are the aircraft covered.

This decal set provides markings for 34 (thirty-four!!) aircraft:

• F4U-1A, BuNo 17735, VMF-215, 735, Jan 1944
• F4U-1, VMF-124, 13, May 1943
• F4U-1, VMF-124, 114, Aug 1943
• F4U-1, BuNo 02350, VMF-213, 7, Jul 1943, 'Daphne C'
• F4U-1, BuNo 03829, VMF-213, 15, Sep 1943, 'Daphne C'
• F4U-1, VMF-213, 11, Jul 1943, 'defabe'
• F4U-1, VMF-213, 20, Jul 1943
• F4U-1, BuNo 02714, VMF-215, 76, Aug 1943, 'Spirit of 76''
• F4U-1, VF-17, 17-F-13, Aug 1943, USS Bunker Hill
• F4U-1A, BuNo 17649, VF-17, 1, Nov 1943, 'Big Hog'

• F4U-1A, VF-17, 19, Nov 1943
• F4U-1A, BuNo 18005, VF-17, 17, Mar 1944
• FG-1A, BuNo 14056, VMF-121, 056, Nov 1944, 'Mary'
• F4U-1A, VMF-111, 108, Nov 1943
• F4U-2, VMF(N)-532, 201, Jan 1944, 'Shirley June'
• F4U-4, BuNo 80879, VMF-222, 13, Jun 1945
• F4U-1D, VMF-913, F-107, 1944
• F4U-1A,VF-111, 122, 1944
• F4U-1, BuNo 50042, VMF-321, 042, 1943
• F4U-1, BuNo 02435, VMF-225, 435, Nov 1943
• F4U-1A, BuNo 49850, VMF-217, 850, Sep 1944, 'Bayou Baby'
• F4U-1, BuNo 17034, VMF-215, 34, Jan 1944
• F4U-4, BuNo 82166, VMA-323, 13, Jun 1951
• F4U-1, VF-124, 18, Apr 1943, 'Bubbles'
• FG-1, VF-122, 143, Oct 1944, 'Blue Baron'
• F4U-1A, VF-17, 29, Feb 1944
• F4U-1A, VF-17, 9, Nov 1943
• F4U-1A, BuNo 17932, VF-17, 34, Nov 1943, 'LA City Limits'
• F4U-1A, VF-17, 15, Nov 1943
• FG-1A, BuNo 13271, VMF-211, 271, Jan 1944
• F4U-1, BuNo 02576, VMF-214, 740, Dec 1943
• F4U-1A, BuNo 17883, VMF-214, 883, Dec 1943
• F4U-1, VMF-213, 10, Jul 1943, 'Guss Gopher'
• F4U-1, BuNo 02487, VMF-215, 590, Jan 1944

These decals will work great with any of the 1/48 Corsairs out there including Hasegawa, Academy and Tamiya. With this interesting variety of markings, you might want to stock up on a number of F4Us!

This set is definitely recommended!

You can find these decals through your local hobby shop or through FlightDecs. For more information, visit the Sky Models website at web.tiscalinet.it/skymodels.