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[PR19_Kit]

I find it astonishing that 74 Sqdn. only ever hosted the Tiger Meet once! 

[loupgarou]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Tiger_Association#Former_members

Here's an inspiration . For example maybe instead it was Leopard Meet or Killer Whale Meet

If your was an answer to my post, thanks. But, where can I find DECALS for that?
That is: I want to shot down many swiss aircraft, how can I show victories on my aircraft?

[martinbayer]

I want to shot down many swiss aircraft, how can I show victories on my aircraft?

Toblerone pieces? Cheese blocks? Alphorns?

[PR19_Kit]

How about something like this?

[loupgarou]

How about something like this?

Yes, that's the idea.
But VEEERY small, to put as victory marks under the cockpit of an 1/72 aircraft. I don't suppose that any decal maker has thought there is a market for such items....

[Rheged]

I want to shot down many swiss aircraft, how can I show victories on my aircraft?

Toblerone pieces? Cheese blocks? Alphorns?

A Toblerone bar, gathering another piece for each victory?  That's imaginative!

[Mossie]

Yes, that's the idea.
But VEEERY small, to put as victory marks under the cockpit of an 1/72 aircraft. I don't suppose that any decal maker has thought there is a market for such items....

You could print it onto white decal sheet, being such a simple design they should print very well.

[loupgarou]

Yes, that's the idea.
But VEEERY small, to put as victory marks under the cockpit of an 1/72 aircraft. I don't suppose that any decal maker has thought there is a market for such items....

You could print it onto white decal sheet, being such a simple design they should print very well.

Yes, I'll have to try, never tried printing decals till now.
PROBLEM: I had bought sheets for inkjet printers, then sheets for laser. Everything mixed up. How do I recognize them?
And what would happen if I put a sheet for inkjet in a laser printer?

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, that's the idea.
But VEEERY small, to put as victory marks under the cockpit of an 1/72 aircraft. I don't suppose that any decal maker has thought there is a market for such items....

You could print it onto white decal sheet, being such a simple design they should print very well.

Yes, I'll have to try, never tried printing decals till now.
PROBLEM: I had bought sheets for inkjet printers, then sheets for laser. Everything mixed up. How do I recognize them?
And what would happen if I put a sheet for inkjet in a laser printer?

Sacrifice a sheet of each by cutting it into 1/4s, then printing something onto them using both printers. When you've found which one works on which paper write the printer type onto the back of the correct sheets.

Best, DON'T mix them up in the first place!

[zenrat]

If you use the wrong type of paper for the printer you get fisheyes in the ink.  Don't ask me how I know...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Tiger_Association#Former_members

Here's an inspiration . For example maybe instead it was Leopard Meet or Killer Whale Meet

I have plans to do a "Magpie Meet" Wyvern.  Not for this GB, although...

[loupgarou]

Yes, that's the idea.
But VEEERY small, to put as victory marks under the cockpit of an 1/72 aircraft. I don't suppose that any decal maker has thought there is a market for such items....

You could print it onto white decal sheet, being such a simple design they should print very well.

Yes, I'll have to try, never tried printing decals till now.
PROBLEM: I had bought sheets for inkjet printers, then sheets for laser. Everything mixed up. How do I recognize them?
And what would happen if I put a sheet for inkjet in a laser printer?

Sacrifice a sheet of each by cutting it into 1/4s, then printing something onto them using both printers. When you've found which one works on which paper write the printer type onto the back of the correct sheets.

Best, DON'T mix them up in the first place!

Too late for your last suggestion, I am afraid! 
What I am afraid of, won't the wrong type of decal MELT in the laser, gumming up everything?

[NARSES2]

I have a couple of after market sheets of kill markings and the one thing I noticed is that sometimes the colours were reversed so as to show up more, so you get white crosses on a black circle etc.

So you could have a red cross in a white square/circle ? If so then use 1/76 or 1/72 armour markings for the first aid markings ? Some German WWII aircraft also carried these red cross markings.

Just an idea

[Dizzyfugu]

Something completely different, but maybe an exotic inspiration for this GB - the short story "A Colder War" by Charles Stross, a modern piece of literature, founded in the weird horror universe of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos of the early 20th century.

Enjoy the read:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

[zenrat]

I have a couple of after market sheets of kill markings and the one thing I noticed is that sometimes the colours were reversed so as to show up more, so you get white crosses on a black circle etc.

So you could have a red cross in a white square/circle ? If so then use 1/76 or 1/72 armour markings for the first aid markings ? Some German WWII aircraft also carried these red cross markings.

Just an idea

Red cross on a white ground kill markings are carried by real life strike aircraft to denote hits on Medecin Sans Frontiers establishments...

[Gondor]

I have a couple of after market sheets of kill markings and the one thing I noticed is that sometimes the colours were reversed so as to show up more, so you get white crosses on a black circle etc.

So you could have a red cross in a white square/circle ? If so then use 1/76 or 1/72 armour markings for the first aid markings ? Some German WWII aircraft also carried these red cross markings.

Just an idea

Red cross on a white ground kill markings are carried by real life strike aircraft to denote hits on Medecin Sans Frontiers establishments...

I suppose some aircraft would carry tank markings in blue as well..........

Gondor