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                        font for VVS aircraft numbers...?

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                        kermit
                        • Member since
                          June 2009
                        • From: Netherlands
                        font for VVS aircraft numbers...?
                        Posted by kermit on Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:30 AM

                        Hey guys,

                        I am currently modeling "white 54" out of ICM's Mig3 kit in 1/48 scale:

                        Since i misplaced the decalsheet so it seems (not that it was any good i have heard) i am planning on printing the numbers myself. The stars i can get from my spares box.

                        One will obviously notice the russians had a kind of peculiar font for these numbers and as i am told the font also varied from factory to factory.

                        The question ofcourse is: Does any know of, or have, a font like this? I am pretty skilled using photoshop and paint shop, i just need a font to work with. Any reference site with a picture of these numbers might also be valuable.

                        Thank you for reading and i hope someone has the answer i need.

                        Richard

                        "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winston Churchill

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                        OMCUSNR
                        • Member since
                          September 2011
                        • From: Medford, OR
                        Posted by OMCUSNR on Sunday, February 19, 2012 5:20 PM

                        Richard,

                        A white decal is a bit problematic.  You might try taking that image into photoshop and printing it onto a sheet of frisket paper and using that as a mask to paint the marking.

                        http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=frisket+paper&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=0l0l1l855l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=653&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=7627188436077138555&sa=X&ei=b4NBT9e0N8SsiQKmkOSKAQ&ved=0CEoQ8wIwAg  

                        Reid

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                        "Don't sweat the small stuff.  And.... it's ALL small stuff, until you hear INCOMING!!!!!!"

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                        Nathan T
                        • Member since
                          March 2010
                        • From: MN
                        Posted by Nathan T on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 9:12 AM

                        Richard, here's some wartime photos, seems the VVS used different style numbers and fonts on almost every airplane, but they look different than any other nations fonts and markings, so not sure what to tell you. Maybe just trying to draw it free hand on masking tape the cutting it out with an exacto and painting it on? I have some spare VVS decals(#s 5 and 4) for various birds but the font is slightly different for each one. Good luck.

                        Note the difference in number style between the Mig 3s and LaGGs

                         

                         

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                        Ninetalis
                        • Member since
                          January 2012
                        • From: Belgium, EU
                        Posted by Ninetalis on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:17 AM

                        Kermit,

                        Try 1001 Free Fonts or Dafont
                        I think that 1001 Free Fonts even has a russian letters category.
                        But I don't know if it's there, but I'm pretty sure you have something that looks like it over there

                        Regards Ninetalis

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