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perdu

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Hi

I wonder if anyone knows of a source for lettering in this style?

I will need it for a scratchbuild I'm contemplating, but Hannant's don't seem able to supply U.S.Army style letters

I cant find a MS Word font that I could use either, were I to print my own

All leads gratefully followed up

;)

bill

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Yes they're pretty close but the M is too bloomin wide

But definitely a good start

I tried searching Hannants for US letters... No luck

You have had more practice perhaps :)

Thanks for that

b

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I found the Hannants Lettering decals :)

Some not bad but all have the wider style of letter M :(

I think I will order CAM72A07 in the hope it will look OK when on the model

Or conversely, maybe modify the M using Word

Thanks for your help chaps

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oh that's mean

I'll be spending hours of valued leisure time now, simply drooling

:)

Thanks for that, it could provide the answer

I have just down loaded two Truetype fonts, Amarillousaf and usn stencils

The M from the Navy set looks just right and if the Truetype is "true" I may be able to get exactly what I need

I'm not messing tonight though

That is a secret pleasure for tomorrow

;)

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Thanks Jennings

The picture above is the actual machine I'm working on (and it is in colour) :)

As you can see the M is wider on the decal sheets than on the 'plane

I will work round it now I have the font name thanks all

b

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The US letter style is known as Machine IIRC. Fantasy printshop do US letter sheets.

John

Hi

I wonder if anyone knows of a source for lettering in this style?

I will need it for a scratchbuild I'm contemplating, but Hannant's don't seem able to supply U.S.Army style letters

I cant find a MS Word font that I could use either, were I to print my own

All leads gratefully followed up

;)

bill

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Thanks John, I'll delve around in there later

I've been working with the Amarillo font on Paint Shop Pro, seems easy enough to use two Is and shift them across to pop a V in between

Off to look up "machine" font now

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The 45 degree USAAC/USAAF/USAF style lettering doesn't have a name. The fonts that exist came into existence *long* (many decades) after the real thing. Amarillo is fairly good, but doesn't match the standard USAF style in some ways (the number 7 for instance). "Machine" is probably just someone else's version of it.

If you have Adobe Illustrator or Corel (or some other vector software) you can turn the font into a vector outline and modify the "M" to suit what you see in the photos.

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Thanks Jason, unfortunately it will need to be in 1/72

I expect I will follow Jennings's advice and play with it in Inkscape

Thanks everyone for the help

This is a great place for good advice and info

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Thanks Jason, unfortunately it will need to be in 1/72

I expect I will follow Jennings's advice and play with it in Inkscape

Thanks everyone for the help

This is a great place for good advice and info

:thumbsup:

Hello,

I have some generic Microscale/Supersale decal sheet, what size should be the lettering?

Bye.

Marco

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Hello,

I have some generic Microscale/Supersale decal sheet, what size should be the lettering?

Bye.

Marco

Hi Marco I am not certain of the size yet

They will be on the side of the aircraft on a 1/72 scale aeroplane ;)

The picture shows them in-situ on the fuselage

Probably about 2.5 - 3 cm long

I will be printing my own now as I'm making them in Inkscape in with the rest of the numerals and letters I need

cheers

b

I'm not announcing a build for this one, it may take me a year or so. At my present rate of production :)

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