Rob Richardson's upcoming DH125 - Some progress shots

Theplasticmax: Gill sans is sometimes nearer the mark & I must admit that I had not thought of Helvetica, but from my time in British Drawing offices since 1961, the tracing Departments used 'UNO' stencils & I've not found the font for them, & I'm sure that the MOD (or Min Supply) would have specified the drawing for the instrument company to make them to. Might go back to some pre-WW2 specification for fonts - you never know!
Keith
 
Keeping to the slightly off topic question of fonts......it would seem to be a recurring problem. Mil-Spec 33558 gives the characters but there does not seem to be a digitised ttf available. The UK equivalent appears to be MoS Drawing Z3587, which I have so far been unable to find, but some sources say its identical to the Mil spec. These are also probably the same as the later Stannag 3648 & 3329, which again I've not found. Some other forums (SOH included) recommend Granby, but also mention Gorton & Futura. For my money (free of course!) Granby numerals seem to be correct (e.g. 'Flat topped' threes) & for alpha characters Arial, which seem to be better than the others.
Keith
 
Rob,
I thought Gill Sans was a standard installation in Windows. If not just google Gill Sans font, I dont think its as good as Johnstone.
I have found however free alternatives to Johnstone & granby which are payware - London Tube - which would appear to be a copy of Johnstone (just google the name, & there is www.openfontlibrary.org where you can get Railway Regular which seems very similar. (Johnstone BTW is the London Transport font).
Hope that helps.
Keith

[edit] Just looked on the MS site Gill Sans MT comes with Office 2010 which I have - it does not appear to come with W7.
 
Even better news for using the correct font, Googled Mil Spec 33558 & there is a free download. This is the correct font if you compare it with photos of the 125 cockpit seen on the web, - found it by accident just now! www .fontsaddict.com - they do not want a hot link.
Keith
 
Finding a suitable font can be a mind-numbing task. I spent a lot of time on fontshop.com looking for instrument fonts where you can enter a display string like "1234567890" and a font size and it'll display your text to that size. Then tell you it's £185 for the five-font set! :pop4:
 
Tom,
Yes I found a lot like that even tho they advertise Free downloads, although some sites do have a 'private use' free d/l, & only if one is going to use commercially does one have to pay.
Keith
 
Just finished flying it. Very nice! I've been hoping for a good HS.125 with a VC since early FS9 days. It looks great, flies great, and even sounds like the Viper powered beast! Thank you Rob! :applause:
 
Can't wait to get home tonight to try Rob - I'm sure it'll be superb.

I echo Storm's RAF Dominie hopes for an RAF paint.

I learned something new today .... looking at the Airfix model cover showing the unpainted white radome - it looked odd, since I'd only ever seen them painted thus ......

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... but I did some digging, and in fact, in the 70s, they did have the radome unpainted (or painted in dielectric paint) ....



Personally, I think the newer, painted-over scheme looks smarter - but the other paint scheme certainly was used, at least at RAF Manby's College of Air Warfare....

Live and learn.

DL
 
Thanks so much, Rob!! Looks great, sounds great, and flies great.:encouragement:

Late 70's I had my first good job, right seat in a King Air, and the chief pilot's brother flew a DH-125 with Vipers. Got to crawl through it--built like a tank and never forgot those yokes.

Cheers,
steve
 
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