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  • Member since
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Skymodels decals
Posted by 68GT on Sunday, March 7, 2021 6:53 AM

Anyone have the who, what and where on them?  I was going to order some of their decals through Hannants last November but I didnt and became out of stock.  Now they've been out of stock for 3 months as well as everywhere else.  Dothey have a web page of some type somewhere?

 

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:08 AM

I have a set of their Halifax decals i bought a few years back. Hannants don't have any of their sets in stock, but i guess that might be down to import issues from Europe due to Brexit. They do have a site but not much info on it.

http://web.tiscali.it/skymodels/

It includes their e-mail so you could try dropping them a line. It seems to be a small outfit and given how Covid has hit Italy hard my guess is they have have been impacted by that. Can't find any sellers for their items listed on scalemates.

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  • From: New Jersey
Posted by 68GT on Sunday, March 7, 2021 7:57 AM
Thank, it seams everyone is out of stock from their decals. Hannants had reprints of their P-40 and early spitfires sheets that I was looking for. I waited a week or two too long to order and they were unavailable.

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  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:30 AM

Just a friendly 'heads up' about Skymodels, if you haven't heard it before: I've got several of their sheets...use them, and like them...but they're fairly widely-known for varying degrees of inaccuracy in many of the markings they print. Stuff like odd color choices...putting on codes or serials for only one side of an a/c, and sometimes conflating markings for several different a/c into one.

Nothing heinous...it just helps to be aware to check their artwork against original sources when you can.

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  • Member since
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  • From: New Jersey
Posted by 68GT on Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:11 PM
Hannants just received a shipment so I pulled the trigger. I will find out how they are in a few.

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Posted by 68GT on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:23 PM
8 days later and my Royal Mail packet arrived from Hannants. I ordered the SkyModels Spitfires 48-033, FW 190 A/F 48-056 and .Curtiss P-40 48-047. Colors appear to be in check and the graphics a re sharp and in register. Might be that these are fresh printings but hey all look great.

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  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:16 PM

68GT
Might be that these are fresh printings but hey all look great.

Glad they were what you needed!

Greg

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  • Member since
    February 2010
  • From: New Jersey
Posted by 68GT on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 8:04 PM
They could have included more national insignias but at $4.99 each I can't complain.

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