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Lack Of Greeblies

Started by Hobbes, October 04, 2007, 02:07:34 PM

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Hobbes

I'm finishing a few projects, and I found that while I've got plenty of roundels and serials, I'm coming up short on things like ejection seat triangles and other warnings. Many decal sheets contain options for several countries, plus only one set of greeblies so you can only finish one aircraft with the sheet.
I've got several aftermarket sets, but they're no better (with one exception: the Xtradecals 1/144 Tornado and Hunter sheets contain quite a few small items).
What's the secret (short of binning an entire aircraft so I can use its decalsheet on something else)?

gooberliberation

Have you tried printing your own decals? I rarely bother with ejector triangles and maintinance markings but i do make copies of instrument panels just in case.
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Hobbes

No. I don't have a printer and I don't want one. I found a guy who'll do custom sheets, though, I suppose I could add some greeblies to them.  

Captain Canada

What you do, is put a post on here looking for decals.....and them your friends show up and send you some from their stash !

144th scale, you say ?

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Thorvic

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Fantasy Printshop

These do them in 1/72.

Xtradecal also do a couple of stencil sheets,. one for the 90's Tornados and a more recent one of the lower prfofile modern stuff.

Modern sheet

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Mossie

Expanding on Geoff's post, on the Hannants site type "stencil" in the keywords box & you'll find tons of sheets consisting purely of stencils.  The description will usually tell you how many aircraft you can get out of it, usually several unless it's in the larger scales.
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php...&order_asc=code
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noxioux

I have nothing in 1/144, but I have a bunch of odd stuff in 1/48 you'd be welcome to.