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Nov 14th, 2008 at 7:11am

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I'm wanting to try my hand at doing some airliner repaints but I am having some difficulty in locating some resources. I am trying to find some .psd style decal sheets with various markings used on commercial jets.  I found some great military decal sheets at simmers paint shop, but nothing for civilian airlines. I've search through all 56 pages here (made for a long morning! Cheesy) and found a few links but they are all dead now. Sad
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Smiley
 
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Reply #1 - Nov 14th, 2008 at 3:03pm

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what kinda thing are you after? Ive various fonts i use for reg lettering and one or two flag sheets (a lot of aircraft seem to have a flag after the reg number) but other than that ive not found much else...

heres a handy font site i use now and then....

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-f2.html

I get a lot of fonts from here or similar, once ive discoverd what font i need (thats usualy the tricky bit) and as some are only commercialy available for £££ sometimes you can find ones 'as close as' on sites such as this Cheesy

i use this for reference mainly...

http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Orion-Airways

And my favorite resource is of course, airliners.net Smiley

Theres  couple of sites out there with sick bags and timetables on, ill post them if i can relocate them, good for older liverys and lettering stlyes
 

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Reply #2 - Nov 14th, 2008 at 3:10pm

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I'm looking for the little decals that go around door handles, jet intake/exahuast, landing gear doors, no-step decals and the such. Just the little stuff.
Thanks for those links also! Smiley Hadn't run across those yet. Smiley
 
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Reply #3 - Nov 14th, 2008 at 4:37pm

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Ah i see. If youve found the military ones i think thats all you will need. If the paintkit is anywhere near decent, all these sort of things should be already there.

Or simply cut and paste from photographs, especialy the 'CUT HERE' (like a red box with only the corners in red, with emergency somthing or other stamped inside ) boxes often seen on airliners - they are so tiny on the paint you wont tell the difference! You can hand make them quite easy also. Youd be hard pressed to spot them on some photos, mind.

Brtish airways are a good one to look at for those, they often stand out.

Engine markings, no step and so on should really be in the paintkit!
 

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