• Lorraine Clinch

    Member
    17 January 2006 at 22:36

    Don’t know what the font is ? plain old arial, with cut-outs? Could do this one yourself I would have thought?

  • Andy Gorman

    Member
    17 January 2006 at 23:40

    Yeah, Helvetica or something. You could make that easy using a standard font.

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    17 January 2006 at 23:47

    Back in the forties they used stencils to paint numbers on planes. Hence the cut-outs on the letters (the “U” didn’t need one – this was an error by the model maker). It’s an adapted version of Helvetica for stencilling 😮

  • John Childs

    Member
    18 January 2006 at 07:06

    Hmmmm.

    Arial is too new. Even MicroSoft can’t lay claim to any input on the Spitfire. It might work for those particular letters but if you have got others to do the R, for instance, would look right out of place.

    Helvetica might work but again is a bit new. I think that was a fifties thing and although the Mk24 (I think) Spitfire was still in squadron service in the Far East in the early fifties I don’t think that your model is one of those. It’s difficult to tell from the photo angle but it doesn’t appear to have a bulletproof windscreen suggesting that it is a very early mark. Same R problem.

    I would suggest something with a straight legged R, like Grotesque.

    Well, that’s established my anorak credentials so I’m going to work. 🙁

    PS. Nice model. Did you make it?

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    18 January 2006 at 08:29

    it looks a bit like Univers Regular…. with bits cut out.

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