Condor Legion Font

Cees Donker

Cees Donker

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Hello guys,

I'm searching a Condor Legion Font. The numbers on the planes were very distinctive. Does it exist?

:wavey:

Cees
 
Cees, Computer acting up and can't format my posts, but here is a link I found for fonts. It may help you in making the font yourself. https://www.thoughtco.com/create-your-own-fonts-using-inkscape-1701895 Inkscape is free and is like Illustrator -- much like GIMP is to Photoshop. The link should help you transfer/trace the characters and then make a font you can use in any project down the line since the shapes/numbers will already be done. Jorge
 
Jorge said:
Cees, Computer acting up and can't format my posts, but here is a link I found for fonts. It may help you in making the font yourself. https://www.thoughtco.com/create-your-own-fonts-using-inkscape-1701895 Inkscape is free and is like Illustrator -- much like GIMP is to Photoshop. The link should help you transfer/trace the characters and then make a font you can use in any project down the line since the shapes/numbers will already be done. Jorge
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Very interesting Jorge! I'll give it a try! Thanks all, for taking the time to help!:kilroy:

:wavey:

Cees
 
Hi Cees, in the past I did some Condor legion repaints. For these repaints I created the numbers. I will checke whether I can still find these numbers.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Here you are Cees!

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The zip file below contains a layered file with a sheet with the numbers and a second sheet with an alternative 8 and 0

The "other" numbers on the decal sheet posted by Hurricane91 are in the early Condor numbers font.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Cees,

Huub beat me to it!

Here are mine if you want to give them a shot, though Huub's are better!

Jorge
 

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Jorge said:
Cees,

Huub beat me to it!

Here are mine if you want to give them a shot, though Huub's are better!

Jorge
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Not bad, not bad at all :biggrin-new:.

You almost did beat me as my original file was a bit messy. I had not drawn the numbers with the intention to share them. So when I cleaned up the file a bit, I realised there was no number 4, so I had to draw that one first....

Cheers,
Huub
 
huub vink said:
Not bad, not bad at all :biggrin-new:.

You almost did beat me as my original file was a bit messy. I had not drawn the numbers with the intention to share them. So when I cleaned up the file a bit, I realised there was no number 4, so I had to draw that one first....

Cheers,
Huub
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Thanks Huub!

Don't really get to share much with work and "real" life taking up most of my time! :untroubled:

I embarassingly forgot to mention. I work with GIMP for textures, SVG, etc. In order to use the ones I did, you would have to import the SVG files into Photoshop (or GIMP, or whatever) in order to see the paths.

Not sure if I needed to mention that or not, but felt dumb when I loaded the psd file and saw no paths.

I can post the GIMP file with everything if you folks want, or I can load to the library under "Utilities" as well. Whatever you guys prefer.

Regards,

Jorge
Miami, FL

PS: If anyone wishes to get more info for paints, here's a good link:

http://equinoxe.dk/SCWaircraft/codes.html

I also have a link to orders of battle if anyone's interested. It's in Spanish at Wiki:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Órdenes_de_batalla_administrativos_de_la_Aviación_española
 
Nice Cees,

Drawing number in the same font is actually not that difficult. The numbers and letters in a font share the same dimensions and often the same curves. First make a layer with these dimensions and than draw an "O", which will provide you most of the curves. A bit smart copy and pasting will provide you most letters and numbers, without too much problems. Although the 2, 4 and 7 might be a challenge.

Cheers,
Huub

Some Condor Legion legends below, using the same numbers....

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And Shessi's early Bf109s are great canvas to test these numbers on........

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And remember, we are still in FS2004 here!
 
Cees,

To avoid disappointment, the Messerschmitt Bf109 E-3 from the Kondor Legion with registration 6-111 was flown by Lt. Werner Ursinus, Laciena Spain, 1939. Stephan Pillon (Epsillon) did already a very nice repaint representing this aircraft. It is available in the library here.

Cheers,
Huub
 
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