This latest decal is a cooperative sheet from Old 66 Decals and Starfighter decals and is for a specific SH-3D Sea Kit. 'Old 66' is unique in having been used in the recovery of five US space capsules during the hey-days of NASA's space operations in the 1960s and early 1970s. This sheet is for this aircraft when it was used in its final recovery, that of Apollo 13 in April of 1970.

In addition, the sheet has markings from its earlier career, though the instruction sheet doesn't specifically cover those markings. The sheet's superb instructions provide a ton of good information on this aircraft and there are plenty of 'net photos to help with the earlier markings.

Last year we had the 1/72 sheet and now 1/48 modelers have the opportunity to build this historic aircraft. There is only one kit out there in this scale at this time and that is the Hasegawa kit. This has also been reboxed by Revell AG. The kit is an SH-3H so a bit of backdating will need to be done, the biggest change is to reduce the size of the horizontal stabilizer. Scale drawings are provided for this as well as for making a few other modifications.

In all, a very nice sheet for doing this historical aircraft.

As a bit of an interesting note, though not as accurate as these, the old Tamiya 1/100 SH-3D includes these markings.

Thanks to www.starfighter-decals.com for the review sample. Get yours direct from this link.

June 2015

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