| Leadpusher | 15 Dec 2012 11:07 p.m. PST |
Does anyone make lozenge decals for 1/300 World War1 aircraft? I can find the crosses and other national markings but cannot locate the lozenge decals. |
| Allen57 | 15 Dec 2012 11:21 p.m. PST |
Unfortunately no one does. Being lazy I looked several years agowith no luck. I also talked to several decal manufacturers who said that it could not be done. Ended up painting the camo by hand and did a sort of impressionistic version of the pattern. Here is one of my planes which I gave a picture of to Mark at Scale Creep miniatures to use. It really is not too hard once you wrap your head around the concept.
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| Sundance | 16 Dec 2012 6:08 a.m. PST |
I haven't attempted it yet, but I was looking for decals also. Problem is that different manufacturers have different size a/c – even for the same make and model – so you would have to make decals too big and then trim them down after they were on. Also, IIRC someone tried it once and said it didn't really look like lozenge camo – it just looked like a big mess as the individual lozenges were so small after the pattern was shrunk down. |
| Abwehrschlacht | 16 Dec 2012 6:18 a.m. PST |
It's been a while since I used 1/300th scale but I used to paint the lozenge pattern on myself, very much like Allen57 above. At that scale it's almost impossible to see the pattern properly anyway, so a few random blobs across the wings seemed to work. |
| GilmoreDK | 16 Dec 2012 12:30 p.m. PST |
I have had Doug Baumann rescale his excellent Lozenge decals to 1/350th scale with good results. he can probably be persuaded to scale them to 1/300 as well. Info and contact: link - Svend |
| boy wundyr x | 16 Dec 2012 4:38 p.m. PST |
I painted it too, here's my take (pre-dullcoting):
What was probably stupider was I fully painted the underwing version too, but don't have a photo of it. |
| gweirda | 17 Dec 2012 7:56 a.m. PST |
Since people are sharing paintjobs…
link I cheated (to a certain extent) and did the 4 -rather than 5- color version. Fiddly to be sure, but I'm not sure how easy (less fiddly) it would be to manipulate decals on all those surfaces? |
| kmahony111 | 17 Dec 2012 8:01 p.m. PST |
Yeah I did some a while back and just painted dots on them. The effect is good from a foot or two away
Cheers
Kieran |
Reviresco  | 06 Feb 2013 8:19 p.m. PST |
Reviresco makes 1/300 lozenge decals. not in the catalog yet. email john@tin-soldier for information. |
| Old Slow Trot | 20 Feb 2013 7:44 a.m. PST |
I have enough difficulties with the 1/72 lozenge decals. |
| GilmoreDK | 20 Feb 2013 11:51 a.m. PST |
Some more handpainted lozenge examples (1/350) W.12s (Shapeways)
Fdh. G.III (Shapeways)
Fokker D.VII – Jasta 10 (Scratchbuilt Styrene)
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makes flight stands for 1/300 scale aircraft.
