Hey everyone,

I was wondering were your graphic emblems were coming from and what methods were used create or purchase them. I have two jet projects and a few propjobs that I want to add military style graphics to instead of the ones that come from the kits. Is there a company that specialize in this. What do they need to produce the graphics I need? What is the best type of material to use and any other points I need to consider.

Thanks Fella's. Always appricate the effort you go to to help out a fellow modeler.

Shawusa.

I use AEROLOFT DESIGN for my F15 fantastic job
contact cindy at aeroloft they are located in Pheonix
Arizona

Brian
England

www.aeroloft.com

Thanks for the link. I wish they had photos of there product avaliable. Do you have any shoots of your planes witht there product? Can you go over your experience with applying them?

Thansk again!

Shawnusa

hello!
i have used pro-mark graphics for the sport jets that i built. they are transfer~like and very well impresed and easy to use. if you go to a more scale approach, you can make your own art and send to them to be custom made. as i live in brazil i don´t have that faccility, so i custom make my own decals by the water slide method, but this is very difficult and you can´t have anything white and clear colors don´t show up over dark painting schemes. anything i can help, just ask.!!
one more thing, i use as samples to my decals plastic models decal sheets, from 1/48 scale.

Call these guys, Bart can cut almost anything in vinyl:
www.die-hardgraphics.com

Shawnusa asked ...
What do they need to produce the graphics I need? What is the best type of material to use and any other points I need to consider.
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I've used both ProMark and Aeroloft for my projects. Products from both are a dry transfer (rub on) that should be clear coated. I used ProMark for some custom stuff - you can generate what you want using CorelDraw; send it to them (Jerry Caudle or his son) and they will work with you. My project was a Bandit done up in RAF display colors used by the RAF Test Pilots School on their display BAe Hawks. Basically I replicated the markings (including all the detailed "use this/don't do that" stuff). The cost was around $200 - rule of thumb: more colors = more expense. I've used the Aeroloft stock items for a couple of scale projects (Marine F-4 and an F-15) and they are QUITE impressive in that you just about need the full scale version in front of you to figure out where all the nitnoid markings go!! Aeroloft also does custom stuff (I built an F-18 a few years back: D'Skunk flown by the Navy out of Pax River); either Steve or Cindy will be quite helpful.

A couple of other modelers I know have successfully used specialty decal paper to print out CorelDraw generated graphics on a color (laser?) printer. However, the color opacity and sharpness was not as good as the dry transfer approach.

Mike

Here`s a pic of aerolofts work
like one of your replys said you get everything
so if its scale you need to find the full size in a museum
or like i did at a friendly airforce base and photograph it from every angle so you place everything correctly

Brian

Nice color! Good detail! This is what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the shot!

Shawnusa

Pro Mark is a good source. I saw it mentioned and went to look for the web site and couldn't find it. But I eventually did:
http://www.pro-mark.com/
I like the dry transfer because they don't leave nearly as much of a film edge as vinyl devcals.

weasel33 wrote:
Here`s a pic of aerolofts work
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You dog!! If we both show up a the same jet gig there will be two Eagles with the same tail number: the 49FW "wing king" jet at Holloman before the black jets came. The Aeroloft quality and the exent of their markings is really impressive. The price for the stuff is a good value too.

Mike

Mike wrote

>>>>>You dog!!!

Sorry Mike about the Holloman Eagle but i got invited to go see the black jets out there and just fell in love with it,and it was always in the back of my mind for my Avonds F15.
As you say Cindys work is outstanding and very good value for money,I actually picked the graphics up from her in Pheonix
and let me tell you the equipment she uses is state of the art
and its all scaled to the correct size for your model
I live in England and im sure i could source my graphics locally
but after meeting and seeing how she does it i will always
go back to Aeroloft

Brian
the dog