Sometimes things just turn out RIGHT!

I'd always planned the PR9 to be with 4 (AC) Squadron, a] Because it was my Dad's unit before WWII b] because they'd be returning to their almost traditional role of tactical PR as they did flying Audaxes and Lysanders etc. and c] because they flew Swift FR5s in conjunction with 79 Sqdn. early in the 50s.
Now in modern times, post WWII, 4 (AC) carried their Squadron colours on the nose or either side of the roundel in the shape of a black and red diagonally split rectangle on a gold background with a gold lightning stripe through the middle. Oh hell, it's easier to post a pic...........

Lightning F2As and F6s carried their squadron colours either side of the nose mounted roundel, like this, as seen on the Airfix box lid :-

So I thought I'd combine the two and put the 4 (AC) Sqdn. colours either side of the roundel but of course they didn't exist in decal form anywhere as 4 (AC) Sqdn. never flew Lightnings in any shape or form. That meant I'd have to make them, so after hours of fiddling about with PaintShoPro I had my Squadron flashes drawn up, but they were TINY, like 4 mm wide maximum! To my mind the bits across the diagonal didn't look too much like lightning flashes but they were the only game in town so I printed them off.
While waiting for the varnish to dry I looked around for some underwing roundels as the kit ones are 3 colour and I wanted some 2 colour ones to go along with the low altutide scenario I had in my head. Lightnings had very small underwing roundels as the landing gear took up much of the wing undersurface, so looking for these things wasn't the work of a moment, but eventually I came across a small scrap of decal in amongst the VAST piles of them that I have filed away.
It was from a Harrier GR3 and they had small 2 colour underwing roundels too, EXACTLY the right size for what I needed, but even better, the sheet was for a
4 (AC) Sqdn. Harrier!

There were the nose badges for the GR3 just waiting to be trimmed and placed either side of the nose roundels and they were MILES better than the one's I'd drawn up!
RESULT!

The sheet also included the circular '4' badge that I promptly trimmed off and placed on the extreme nose of the PR9.

How about that for a stroke of luck then?

That last pic's about 4 times full size so you can see how small the badges are.