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Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:45 pm
by MalcolmR
After seeing an IL-76 after a visit to Waddington & Conningsby in the good old days I decided to make the Zveda IL-76 in Indian Air Force colours but decided to wait until someone released the makings for it. Mark 1 released a set of roundels so the build was on. However I would need to make my own code's & Indian Air Force titles. All pretty simple except the port side tilting was in what suppose is Hindu. My daughter came up with the idea of taking a screenshot off one of the photos I had taken & cut & resize it and the printing it off with the rest of the titles. The result is as you see.
Re: Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:22 am
by DH106
Superb photos, Malcolm. What you did for the Hindi titles is clever stuff! For different alphabets I normally just copy the text in the relevant language from a Wikipedia article and then print the decal as a Word document.
Re: Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 11:32 pm
by MalcolmR
I'm not that technologically minded, but I usually get there.
Re: Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:22 am
by Tim R-T-C
Lovely looking kit.
What printer/decal paper do you guys use for the printing?
Re: Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 11:24 am
by TerryP
A lovely model I particularly like how you have got your backgrounds to look so right.
Re: Zvezda IL-76
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:35 pm
by MalcolmR
Printer in my case is an HP ENVY4527 and Crafty inkjet waterslide decal paper. It works OK if you print dark colours and place on very light colours.