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Help with fonts

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Does anyone know of a site which lists fonts commonly used by the military.

I'm having a play at painting and am specificaly looking for those used on the RN Jetstreams.

Any help would be appreceated.

Rob.

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Hi Rob

There are various bits and pieces here and links to other sites some you have to join


http://hans.presto.tripod.com/fonts/usaaf.html

I do have some military fonts if you can't find them here.

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Thanks Garry.

I'll have a look.

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Andy Nott on here has a full set of UK military fonts.. if he doesnt jump on this thread at some point I'll have a dig around my HDD see where they have got to.

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I used to use Skinners Heaven its mentioned there as no longer availiable but there is an alternate.

It's one you need to log into.

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Garry Russell wrote:I used to use Skinners Heaven its mentioned there as no longer availiable but there is an alternate.

It's one you need to log into.

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Skinners Heaven morphed into Simmers Paintshop http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/ . Great place for fonts, paint charts etc.

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Thanks everyone for your help.

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RAF, USAF and a couple others here

http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/font-types.htm

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