rbeach84
Sr Member
The problem is there are so many release with so different paint scheme with different markings that's hard to get the exact same decal sheet they had in their Harrier box. I know that several stencils and NATO markings (heavily used on Red 4) were common to most of the Harrier release, but maybe some of the decals used on the Falcon were specific to one release... It's a hard hunt))
I know that one the TIE there are NATO markings from a much smaller scale plane (probably 1/72), but I havent found the correct plane yet. I know the 1/72 Airfix F4 Phantom is an ANH donor but nothing from the decal sheet I have (here again there were several releases but I think I got a very early kit).
Thanks to your thread I found that most of the decals used on the TIE were from HO trains, CAPY etc... Not sure if the Microscale are the correct ones because the numbers dont match, but this will do the trick ! Thanks
MT, keep in mind when the models you have documented were actually constructed, The MF is relatively straight forward since there is just one and we know when it was constructed. This constrains our candidates to those kits available at the time. Imurme's efforts have done a great service to the survey by actually making determinations of the decal sizes, which of course bears on what scale kit or aftermarket decal source was used. For example, the 'tracking data plates' from the Microscale railroad sheets were available in both N & HO scales (perhaps even O gauge) but a size check shows they are from the HO sheet which we have exemplars for measurement. This is getting really "into the weeds" especially since, from a practical standpoint, folks are going to have the decals made and not going to try and use original sources (not to mention decals don't age as well as plastic parts!) Still, being able to find and examine the original sources will help make any artwork more accurate.
To Imurme, again great finds. I keep going back to that sheet looking for stuff. Also, here are some notes from reviewing your updates last night. I am digesting the latest and applying it to the Tracker so I can publish updates today. I was hoping 'Craig' would divulge where he found the "S" decal but haven't heard back yet. I cannot find any real-world instance of that design (and I've tried searching through corporate logos, fuel company logos & history even the donor kit sheets - admittedly somewhat limited at this point - but to no avail.)
So notes:
#7e: The residue area apparent in some current images does not seem to match the Champion decal shape nor do the various contemporary images really look like a Champion logo. More like a square yellow block, such as those found on the railroad car data sheets.
#9e: Found on a movie screen capture, but the details of the A frame didn't match the current images - until I realized the current state of the model has the dish & mount has been rotated 180 degrees and the dish 'flipped'; so it only appears on the one side of the A frame (I initially assumed both sides, but the large 'block' detail was in the way...) I also thought it was a larger size, but it really looks the same.
#12: Would need to cite specific evidence that there are different thicknesses of the yellow-red stripes; some images appear to present two variations, but the visible detail is small and somewhat blurry. I suspect that the variation is due to the camera effects than to an actual difference. Since we believe all came from the same Microscale sheet, they should be consistent (unless there were two different scales involved.)
Other than that, I'm adjusting the counts as you have noted (and we're on the same page on the port-starbaord docking hatch red stripes being the same side to side...) so the Tracker will have much fewer holes in it. I hope to make this the last major 'realignment' of the numbering so to prevent causing other users from altering *their* numbering on their artwork projects.
Cheers, y'all!
Robert
