Stars and Bars

[Bsklarski]

Anyone out there have any decal sheets for Bicentenial units that they may have used for projects that have some decals left over? Im looking for small white stars. I need these for the fin flash on some F-15s I am making in1/48 for the 104th out of Barnes ANGB. I posted a pic below, so you can get an idea at what I am going for here. Look at the red strip on the top of the tail, those are little white stars. Since I am painting the strips, I need to decal the stars! I cant see buying a whole sheet for this. I thought I would ask first. Ill even pay you for the postage!!

Thank you in advance!

Brian

[Bangorboy]

Hey, Brian!

This brought back some memories.  I was stationed at Westover from '64 to '67.  (Yes, I'm oooold. Turn 70 in a couple of months, and guys retired almost five years ago who joined the AF after I retired.)  Anyway, I took flying lessons at the Westover Aero Club and soloed at Barnes Westfield Airport.  Also remember when an F-86 from there crashed just northeast of the field, and when Ted Kennedy's chartered plane crashed on landing.

Anyway, to get back on subject -- do you have any capability to print on decal paper?  Perhaps you could do a "negative" of the stars.  Use a white decal paper and print the red on it, with the stars showing white in your artwork.  The printer will leave the stars transparent, but the white decal sheet will fill that in.  It'll also make the red brighter than it would be on clear decal paper placed on the gray tail surfaces.  If you have only clear decal paper and you could find some white decal stripes, you could apply the white, then the red over that.

Just some ideas....

Bill B
South Okaloosa N Scalers

[Bsklarski]

Bill..

Im thinking about that. Im also thinking about doing the whole thing as a decal. Or just the stars and letters. I can mask and paint the red and black strip.

 Stationed at Westover from '64 to '67 huh. We shall talk more. I am a very big fan of the B52. I love the B and C models most. 99th bomb wing, 346th, 347th and 348th bomb squardons. I have may books on the subject and the base. I  have a book on all the military crashes on Western Mass. There were several F86s that went down. A few years ago there was a story in the paper about remembering Kennedy's crash. You may even remember the night when 42-2666 went down in Lake Michigan. (B-52C)

[Nato]

         Micro Scale has white stars in their Military section,I'am not sure about the sizes.                        Nate Goodman (Nato).