1:32 IAF F-15I Ra'am Camo

The Israeli F-15I Raam and its camouflage in 1:32 scale

Large-area camouflage on a model with a span of over forty centimeters forgives little. Every ripple of a boundary is visible and cutting tape by hand takes a whole evening. This set offers a ready solution: three sheets of thin masking tape with the whole camouflage pattern and in addition stencils of the Israeli national insignia, so you spray the Star of David instead of applying a decal.

What the sheets contain

Besides the fields of the camouflage scheme, the sheets carry stencils for the insignia on the fuselage and wings. Sprayed marking has two advantages over a decal: it has no carrier film to shine under sharp light, and the edge of the paint sits precisely into the relief of the panel lines.

The Raam in the Israeli Air Force

The F-15I is the Israeli version of the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bomber, called Raam in Hebrew, that is, Thunder. It entered service in the second half of the 1990s and differs from the base type in its instrument equipment, its electronic warfare system and also in a different treatment of the engine nozzles. It is precisely the nozzles and the camouflage pattern that are the two features by which you recognize the Israeli machine at first glance.

Advice on spraying

• Plan the order of the shades before you lay the first mask.
• Lay the large areas from the middle toward the edges, so that you do not trap air under the tape.
• Use the insignia stencils only on a finished and varnished surface.
• Stretch the mask over the rounded nose only slightly, as otherwise it will spring back after removal.

The package consists exclusively of masks, without paints and without a kit.