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What now? No Aeromaster

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 8, 2003 6:41 PM
Thanks so much guys! It seems like most of the manufacturers i was turning up either a. didnt have anything i thought was interesting or b. seemed to have only more modern birds and nothing from wwII. I'll check out your suggestions immediately. Thanks again!
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    December 2002
  • From: Pominville, NY
Posted by BlackWolf3945 on Friday, August 8, 2003 6:21 PM
Eagle Strike, I guess you could say, is the new Aeromaster. After AMD closed shop Eagle Strike hired some folks from that company, and the similarity in the recent releases by Eagle Strike (last year or so) to those of AMD are striking.

There were several releases under the Aeromaster label after AMD was gone for a time. I dunno what the exact situation is now, but not too long ago AMD was supposed to have been "back", like Accurate Miniatures. I'll have to do some checking on this and see if they really are "back".

In any event, I think you can consider AMD & Eagle Strike to be one and the same nowadays.

But Aeromaster/Eagle Strike is by no means the only decal manufacturer out there. Here's a list of some of the other decal companies out there today:

Three Guys Replicas (Now a division of AMtech) These folks have been around awhile and offer good quality markings.

Cutting Edge & Yellow Hammer. Cutting Edge is the In-house decal line of Meteor Productions and they offer quite a selection of Modern and WWII subjects. These, for the most part, are excellent decals. Yellowhammer doesn't offer such a comprehensive selection, but they are good decals as well.

Superscale, formerly known as Microscale, is what could be considered the best bang for the buck these days. Although Microscale/Superscale are my sentimental faves, (I grew up on 'em!) the quality of their markings isn't always as nice as some of the other sheets out there. Nevertheless, they have a large selection and are consistenly less expensive than other decals.

Tally-Ho Decals doesn't have a huge selection, but they are pretty nice decals and worth a perusal.

Eagle Cals is another company with a relatively small selection, and mostly, if not all, Luftwaffe stuff. But these are some of the nicest and best-researched decals you'll find today. (The link above will take you to Eagle Editions' website, (Aviation Art, GOOD stuff!) enter and find the Eagle Cals link about half-way down on the right.)

CAM Decals makes some nice decals, the overwhelming majority of which are for modern subjects. But they do have several sheets for WWII stuff.
Brookhurst Hobbies is an exclusive CAM dealer.

Here are a couple online sources for decals:

FlightDecs is THE place to find aircraft decals on the web. They have the most complete selection I've seen anywhere.

Squadron is my sentimental fave for mail order. Like Microscale Decals, I grew up with Squadron. Anyhoo, they always have a decent selection of alotta different decals.


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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 8, 2003 12:23 PM
Check out Linden Hill Imports at http://www.lindenhillimports.com/products.htm
Mike Grant decals at http://mikegrantdesign.com/decals/
JBOT at http://www.jbot.ca/en/index.shtml and
Eagle Srike productions at http://www.aeromaster.com/
  • Member since
    November 2005
What now? No Aeromaster
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 8, 2003 11:57 AM
So what are you guys doing for good decals now that Aeromaster is out of business? Everytime i search for a decal set Aeromaster has (had) exactly what i was looking for. No one else seems to make as good decals for the WWII aircraft. Advice?
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