Decal designer Syhart has released five new sets of markings for French Air Force and Navy Dassault Rafale M and B airframes – all with special tail artwork.
France has never been shy of applying anniversary/commemorative liveries to its aircraft, and the Dassault Rafale is no exception. Special artwork painted on Rafales from 2017-2020 has now been reproduced in scale form by Syhart, and here we focus on five 1/48 limited-edition sheets offering these schemes. All designs have been reproduced with the help and permission of the original artists. Four packages are aimed at the Aéronavale’s single-seat Rafale M, but the fifth is for the French Air Force Rafale B two-seater.
48-125 Rafale M 100 ans Flottille 11F 2019
Five Rafale Ms received special artwork to mark the centenary of French Navy unit Flottille 11F. All starboard vertical tails of these machines had a gold/brown tiger stripe pattern, over-painted with 11F’s winged seahorse motif, and the tail top was in red, white and blue with black tiger stripes. On the port sides of the tails, each aircraft received individual markings/colours denoting aircraft previously flown by the unit: Hanriot HD.2, Dewoitine D.1C1, Dewoitine D.520, F6F-5 Hellcat and …
