My wife is an avid scrapbooker, with a craft room that makes my modeling / PC cave look positively barren. She recently upgraded her Criket to a larger device that handles wider paper, and I claimed the older machine. This is basically a 2D CnC machine that cuts out just about any shape from paper on up to thin cardboard. It typically runs on cartridges that contain a fixed set of vector based artwork, but it can also be attached to a PC and driven with a third party program that can feed it any vector graphic shape that you care to devise.
Which, of course, brings me to the reason I appropriated the older model. Masks and stencils.
Does anyone know of any good resources out there that have accurate shapes available for insignia, aircraft number fonts, or canopy framing? I don't want to steal anything from Montex or Warpigs masks, but spending $10-$15 on a stencil set of one insignia in one scale size when the production cost is literally a few cents isn't terribly appealing. Even bitmaps will work as those can easily be converted to vector graphics if they're high quality.
I'll try and make a few of my own, but if there's a site that anyone knows of that has freeware images of various aircraft related shapes it would help a lot in the short run.