Military fonts

e.daalder · Post by **e.daalder** » 01 Apr 2008, 19:03

Hi there,

one little question for you. You have any idea where i can get military fonts for repainting. I have no idea what font to use.

Hope you guys can help me.

Post by **Firebird** » 01 Apr 2008, 21:02

I would love to help but I can't paint to save my life maybe a painter can help.
What aircraft were you looking to repaint?

Chrisb · Post by **Chrisb** » 01 Apr 2008, 21:09

There are a few on Simmers Paintshop or from it.
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com

Chris

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 01 Apr 2008, 21:13

Does anyone know where i could acquire saudi AF text, i painted some F15's but never got round to adding the saudi text.

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 01 Apr 2008, 21:16

U.S. military uses a font called "Amarillo USAF". Do a search for it and you should be able to find a place to download it for free.

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 01 Apr 2008, 21:17

MIKE JG wrote:U.S. military uses a font called "Amarillo USAF". Do a search for it and you should be able to find a place to download it for free.

I love that font.

Superbuggz · Post by **Superbuggz** » 02 Apr 2008, 14:13

MIKE JG wrote:U.S. military uses a font called "Amarillo USAF". Do a search for it and you should be able to find a place to download it for free.

That font originally is payware but if you search on google, you'll find free downloads too...
Beware though that some digits like the 5 and 7, are different from what many NATO countries use..

e.daalder · Post by **e.daalder** » 02 Apr 2008, 18:12

Ok guys,

many thanks for your quick response. I found what i was looking for. Steve, i'm not painting anything special, i'm just trying how to repaint. Currently i'm trying to paint some Spangdahlem A-10's. Lets see how it wil work out.

Thanks again to you all.

BTW i really love the TOP GUN package (haven't found my name on one of those jets yet)

Superbuggz · Post by **Superbuggz** » 03 Apr 2008, 07:42

e.daalder wrote:Ok guys,

many thanks for your quick response. I found what i was looking for. Steve, i'm not painting anything special, i'm just trying how to repaint. Currently i'm trying to paint some Spangdahlem A-10's. Lets see how it wil work out.

Thanks again to you all.

BTW i really love the TOP GUN package (haven't found my name on one of those jets yet)

There are already re-paints available of SP A-10's on AVSIM, just in case you need the aircraft but not the work...
As for repainting, there's tons of info and tutorials on www.simmerspaintshop.com, suggest you check that out in case of questions

RipPipPip · Post by **RipPipPip** » 03 Apr 2008, 09:34

Superbuggz wrote:...As for repainting, there's tons of info and tutorials on www.simmerspaintshop.com, suggest you check that out in case of questions

Great headz-up indeed SB, thanks very much!

Graham King · Post by **Graham King** » 03 Apr 2008, 17:47

For the Saudi aircraft I just use an arabic font I downloaded from somewhere, google to find it.

Sometimes a search of wikipedia will produce the name of the air force in the original language. You will find that quite often you can just copy and paste from the website straight into your program and get exactly the same.

I am not sure what I have now but in my early days of painting I used to do the same but I used the arabic text from Saudi Arabia Airlines

Post by **Garysb** » 03 Apr 2008, 20:59

MACC wrote:Does anyone know where i could acquire saudi AF text, i painted some F15's but never got round to adding the saudi text.

Macc
You wont have to wait long for about 135 saudi 15's

Gary

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 04 Apr 2008, 07:20

Garysb wrote:
MACC wrote:Does anyone know where i could acquire saudi AF text, i painted some F15's but never got round to adding the saudi text.
Macc
You wont have to wait long for about 135 saudi 15's

Gary

i'm very happy now, i hope they're based at Dharan(OEDR).

Post by **Firebird** » 04 Apr 2008, 07:43

Its in the last stages of beta, Chris. Trust me you won't be disappointed.

nickblack423 · Post by **nickblack423** » 04 Apr 2008, 07:50

MACC

Check this thread mate

http://www.militaryaiworks.com/forum/vi ... php?t=2842

Nick

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 04 Apr 2008, 08:16

@ nick - ta mate.
@ steve - since when have i ever been dissapointed, lol

Superbuggz · Post by **Superbuggz** » 04 Apr 2008, 08:45

But if you, in spite of all the good news, are still to complete your Saudi aircraft, have another suggestion for you;
As I assume your Arabic is about as good as mine - lousy - it's easy to write wrong verbs on an aircraft (before you know it you're on a deadlist).
What I would normally do is go to any what modelling hobbyshop, and see if I can find a scan of a decal sheet which I then manipulate in Photoshop and use on my aircraft. Same I do with most special paints

You can find some at www.lhshop.nl or www.cybermodeler.com

nickblack423 · Post by **nickblack423** » 04 Apr 2008, 09:13

Thats what I do, even came down to tracing over the text from a photo on a seperate layer on one.

Nick

MACC · Post by **MACC** » 04 Apr 2008, 09:21

Does anyone here do what i do by, copying a photo, then making the colours all the same etc, like on a photo you might have 20 black but then you make them all the same black?

Post by **Garysb** » 04 Apr 2008, 11:15

MACC wrote:
Garysb wrote:
MACC wrote:Does anyone know where i could acquire saudi AF text, i painted some F15's but never got round to adding the saudi text.
Macc
You wont have to wait long for about 135 saudi 15's

Gary
i'm very happy now, i hope they're based at Dharan(OEDR).

F15 C, D & S all squadrons all bases
OEDR
OETB
OETF
OEKM

Cheers Gary