[AX-O]

Doug, I did not know where to put thist post. Sorry.

On Thursday I went to an aircraft junkyard. I was looking for items that could one day be considered art. I found some cool stuff. I plan to turn the fan into a wall clock and paint nose art on the panels and elevators.

TF-30 fan

Helicopter panel

Helicopter elevators

 

[AX-O]

Does anyone on this forum sell templates for military letters? There are plenty of people out there on the internet but I want to support people from this forum first. I need the templates to paint the panels shown above.

 

[RV8iator]

Paint masks

You might try Vince Frazier at www.vincesrocketcom
He is doing some work for me and indicated that he could make masks.
Look under the products link and it shows a bunch of his stuff.

 

[az_gila]

USAF Amarillo Font

Does anyone on this forum sell templates for military letters? There are plenty of people out there on the internet but I want to support people from this forum first. I need the templates to paint the panels shown above.

The USAF uses a USAF Amarillo font... it can be downloaded here...

http://www.tlai.com/med_des/amusaf.html

It is about the only font that exactly matches the FAA block number registration requirements for width and stroke width... and it looks good in the right location...

If you download the font to your PC... you can use a drawing program to get 1:1 stencils defined...

Same site also has a download for this type of stencil...

gil in Tucson

 

[tonyjohnson]

stencils

Gil, (or anyone else)

Do you know where to get the fonts used by the Army Air Corps in 1942? I need to paint some lettering on my 1942 Taylorcraft L2.

Thanks,

Tony

 

[Mike Armstrong]

Just curious, does anybody know why Military Stencil A looks like it does? I always thought it was to confuse foreign enemies from being able to read markings, maybe not.

 

[Caveman]

My guess

Gil, (or anyone else)

Do you know where to get the fonts used by the Army Air Corps in 1942? I need to paint some lettering on my 1942 Taylorcraft L2.

Thanks,

Tony

Click on Gils link above but use AmarilloUSAF Pro?

 

[tonyjohnson]

thanks

Thanks Joe,

Tony

 

[captainron]

Just curious, does anybody know why Military Stencil A looks like it does? I always thought it was to confuse foreign enemies from being able to read markings, maybe not.

When punched into stencil card, all of the components are held together. Think about a "B"; how else do you get the letter to stay together in place so that it can be spray-painted over?

 

[EPopper]

Check out www.motoart.com

Eric

 

[mike newall]

The USAF uses a USAF Amarillo font... it can be downloaded here...

Is this the way to Amarillo

http://www.lyriczz.com/lyriczz.php?songid=16202

 

[az_gila]

Alternate songs...

The USAF uses a USAF Amarillo font... it can be downloaded here...

Is this the way to Amarillo

http://www.lyriczz.com/lyriczz.php?songid=16202

Mike.... In Arizona, we like this one...

http://www.lyrics007.com/Eagles Lyrics/Take It Easy Lyrics.html

Tucson goes for this one from a bunch of blokes from my birthplace...

http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Beatles/Get-Back.html

And, talking of my original home town...

http://ingeb.org/songs/fareweto.html

With a Clancy Brothers excellent rendition on video here...

http://unitedireland.tripod.com/id116.html

gil .. now in Tucson...

 

[AX-O]

Thanks for all the links.