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Irish air corps vampire T55


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Building the vampire t11 from airfix and built it into an Irish Air Corps machine. Was wondering is there any of the decals i can use from the kit Warning signs, escape exit markings etc as have found a few photos but not a lot of them showing much of anything except from the red triangles under canopy and the keep off criss cross sections on the wings and intakes. 

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It's never easy with stencils, particularly the smaller ones, as these are not always visible in old pictures and really only close-ups can be useful in determining which stencils were applied and which weren't. Fortunately there is a good picture in "Wings Over Ireland" showing the top surfaces of a Vampire that seem to indicate that all standard stencils were applied on the upper surfaces, including the indications for the refuelling points, the dotted lines and a few others. Personally if the top surfaces had standard stencils, I would lean toward the whole set being used

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Thanks very much guys. Any way possible anyone has the photos from wings over ireland and Giorgio any chance you could tell me what book or give me a copy of the pics that you have seen these in? :)

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I visited Casement in 1983 and took these photos of the example parked outside of the officers mess. Not the clearest I’m afraid as they are iPhone copies of colour prints.

 

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Hope they are of some use.

 

Trevor

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Hi trevor. Thanks for the photos. They are good. The markings i see i already have on the model. I havnt seen a y pics where it uses any yellow rescue arrows ir any writing stencils on the sides. 

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