Electric Intruders- EA-6A in USN & USMC Service

Published on
July 19, 2014
Review Author(s)
Scale
1/48
MSRP
$19.99
Product / Stock #
48-027
Base Kit
Revell Monogram
Company: Furball Aero-Design - Website: Visit Site
Provided by: Furball Aero-Design - Website: Visit Site
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Furball (Geoff Martin) has been producing some awesome decals and with this latest release, he addresses a venerable kit, Revell's EA-6A Electric Intruder. As a quick background, before the four seat EA-6B came into service to jam all those enemy radars, the Marines ordered 27 of the EA-6A Electric Intruders. They look like Intruders with Prowler tails! Revell's kit has been out a while but still can be built into a beauty and Furball has given us 11 superb schemes to dress the kit up.

As with most Furball sets, you get five large color pages- a cover sheet, side profile sheets of all 11 jets, a sheet of wing marking locations and one sheet showing the stencils provided. All sheets have color call outs with the needed FS numbers. There is one large decal sheet with markings and stencils and one small sheet with wing walks and color for the arrestor hook. The decals have perfect register and are printed by Cartograf.

The decals provided are for the following planes:

  • EA-6A, VMCJ-1, BuNo 156986, DaNang AB 1971
  • EA-6A, VMCJ-1, BuNo 156984, USS Midway 1975
  • EA-6A, VMCJ-2, BuNo 156992, USS Forrestal 1971
  • EA-6A, VMCJ-2, BuNo 156991, USS Saratoga 1972
  • EA-6A VMCJ-2, BuNo 148616, MCAS Cherry point 1974
  • EA-6A, VMAQ-2, BuNo 156989, 1978
  • EA-6A, VMCJ-3 BuNo 147865 1975
  • EA-6A, VMAQ-4, BuNo 151599 1982
  • EA-6A, VAQ-33, BuNo 156988 1983
  • EA-6A, VAQ-209, BuNo 156983 1981
  • EA-6A, VAQ-309, BuNo 159991, 1982

There are some great notes on the wing sheet describing the correct leading edge colors and how to get them correct.

There you have it- an excellent sheet. I have used Furball three times on kits and they have been phenomenal to use with great opacity and settle into and over things perfectly. Highly recommended.

My Thanks to Furball Aero-Design and IPMS/USA for the chance to review this sheet.

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