Colibri decals is a russian company from Novosibirsk. Their site:
https://colibri-decals.ru/index_2I just (literally just) got (among a couple AVD trucks and some other decals) 2 ww2 decal sets from this company trough an E(vil)bay store in Latvia. Here is a little preview. I litteraly just got the box with goodies before starting this and checking of sites mentioned below:
Colibri decals 72042 Il-2 of first series Set is nicely done and is IMHO based on KHHM well known site
filled with pic's, colour profiles and info on these planes:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/il-2/il2-camo/il-2early1941/il2-early1941.htmSo what do you get on rather small decal sheet:
- one set of 6 small red stars (wing upper + lower and fuselage ) and tail numbers for following planes:
- 4. ShAP white 2/5, 4/2, 6/3, 3, 5, 10 and red 2 (red and white under decal separate)
- 61. ShAP white 1,2,3 and 4
White on decals is quite dense so some drybrushing of decal with green will be necessary to make them as almost transparent as on most of real planes. Instruction sheet doesn't go into details of wooden or metal fuselages but details on this are on the link.
This decal sheet is a bit different from the one i got but it seems the difference is only in position of items on decal sheet:
Ever since i read Emelyanenko's book 25 or so years ago i wanted to make one of those early 4. ShAP single seaters (slovene translation from mid 80's also had addenum of almost 1/3 of the book with references explaining the slang, mannerisms and procedures of ww2 VVS and RKKA and russian in general) so when i saw them on E(vil)bay i fell on them like a ton of bricks and i'm not sorry.
Colibri decals 72043 I-153 of 71. IAP VVS KBFSet of 5 different types of stars all with white under decal for white surround are included even tough none of the planes depicted in this set have white surround on stars (gifted horses and all - will be usefull on some of my Il-2's tough). This was a bit of suprise considering it is very different as on the decal sheet posted on their site (look below). It seems i got either early or later version of their decal sheet (similar to their Il-2 sheet). Bort numbers are for following planes:
- white 88 lt. Yakushev B.V. summer 1942,
- white 24 kpt. Solovyev K.B. summer 1942
- white 45 summer 1942
- white 50 kpt. Baturin A.G. summer 1942
- white 75 summer 1942
- white 93 august 1942
- white 102 maj. Boskup P.I. Lavansaari summer 1942
Painting instructions give only one side profile except for white 24 and 102 where both profiles are given and also 2 possible (generic) top profiles are given. Colour profiles of 93 and 102 are almost identical to ones on site referenced below, while white 24 is similar but there are few differences. Stars are marked from 1 to 5 and there is a list of which stars go where on which aircraft. Also some bort numbers are marked as left or right side of fuselage.
This well known site would be invaluble as reference:
http://massimotessitori.altervista.org/sovietwarplanes/pages/i15/i-153/tapani/71iap-kbf/71iap-kbf.htmthis seems is from earlier/later version set and is not the decal sheet that i got (look description - i was also a bit suprised):
I only have experiance with decals from this company in shape of one of their 1/72 decal set for T-34/85. They looked good on the model and i didn't have any problems with them. Hope you find this short preview usefull.