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K. Ito's F-86D/K/L upgrade project

This is a colorful one!
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Thanks for doing us Dutchies this favour. It is really appreciated :encouragement:.

A small remark, I have the feeling that the registration numbers are a bit small. Below a picture of the real thing. As you can see the registration numbers continue until the end of the windshield.

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L, maybe you can use this modified Amarillo font text (ZIP file contains the text "Q-337" in layered PSD format):
 

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Keep in mind that many (all???) Sabres (all versions, including the D model) displayed a non-standard, rounded font for some markings that looked very different from the standard USAF Amarillo font. Pay attention to the photos.

Here's an example. Note how the U.S. Air Force is in the standard font, but the buzz number is in a completely different style:

Yes, this is an F-model, and it's a painting, not a photo, but photos show the same peculiarity.
 
It would be nice to see a photo...

Artistic depictions many times show defects in research... including mine!!! I just had to correct a profile I am working on for an F-86K of
the Aeronautica Militare... just realized I put a wrong buzz number...
so, a photo would probably be a more affirmative source to show the particularity in question mentioned...
G.
 
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(all???) Sabres (all versions, including the D model) displayed a non-standard, rounded font for some markings that looked very different from the standard USAF Amarillo font

Mick you are completely right, I'll modify when applicable.

hschuit, thanks for the modded font, here is the modification. I tried your FsX converted mdl and not surprisingly it's not accepted by fs9.

I also slightly reworked the gun panel

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L, looks like you are almost there: If you look at Huub's photo, the "Kaasjager" serial needs to be moved abit forward :untroubled:
 
These repaints look amazing, but I dont know how you got this far without any 1960's era day glo on bare metal!
 
gaucho_59 said:
...a photo would probably be a more affirmative source to show the particularity in question mentioned...
G.
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Look here for more photos than you can shake the proverbial stick at.

Note how the buzz numbers and the USAF on the wings are usually (perhaps always???) in a rounded, non-standard font, but the serial numbers on the fin are typically (always???) in the standard 45* block Amarillo font. Very curious.

It's curious enough to make me curious enough to look at F-100 pics to see if NAA's paint shop continued that peculiarity on the newer plane, and the answer I found is "sort of." F-100 photos show the buzz numbers and other fuselage markings in the standard font, but on the wings the USAF is still in the non-standard rounded font. Curiouser and curiouser...
 
Mick isn't this sort of the same thing you can notice when you examine photos of P-39s and the serial numbers on their tail surfaces? They are spaced farther apart than what appeared to be normal for most WWII AAF aircraft, also their font is different - meaning the Bell Aircraft painters were sort of "going their own way," I suppose.
 
Hi Friends,
This is only an attempt I did in FSX (with Hschuit converted MDL, Alphasim VC and some old G.Natalicchio's txts, converted in dds format) waiting for the L'iguane's paintkit........

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:wavey::wavey::wavey::wavey:
 
SSI01 said:
Mick isn't this sort of the same thing you can notice when you examine photos of P-39s and the serial numbers on their tail surfaces? They are spaced farther apart than what appeared to be normal for most WWII AAF aircraft, also their font is different - meaning the Bell Aircraft painters were sort of "going their own way," I suppose.
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So it would seem. Still, it strikes me as rather curious. NAA cranked out bazillions of P-51s, T-6s and B-25s, all correctly marked with standard 45* block characters, so their paint shops certainly had the proper stencils on hand. And since NAA didn't build any civil aircraft in those days, there's no reason why they should have had any other style of stencils, except maybe Navy style for the SNJ. Yet they came up with something different for the F-86, and they stuck with it for years. There doesn't seem to be any sense to it. No sense at all.
 
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