caveduck
semi old rocketeer
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Found my Firebird in the first bin I looked in. Scanned the decals and fins through the bag and did a decal cleanup run. The gold metallic color is not that metallic..I left it as the scanned texture rather than doing a color replacement so you can see how it looks. You can easily do a color replacement in Gimp if you want since the gold is now surrounded by solid black. There was a fair amount of color registration error at the left side which has all been fixed. It's here as a png: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XvG0ne4zCtMRv1dt1
Along the way I found out that Google Photos switches the display resolution of jpg's to 72 dpi (nondestructively, but you have to know to switch it back). it does not do that with png's so I will prefer posting in that format. TRF resizes destructively (incorrect jpg headers) so I don't post printable images here.
For those with dimensionally challenged printers, the decal sheet is 3.00 x 9.02 inches overall, and the height of the "FIREBIRD" text is 1.04 inches.
The fins were more of a problem. I can't easily see the diecut lines either by eye or in the scans I did. I suspect that I'm looking at the back of the fin sheet, and I can't flip it over without opening the bag. By playing with the photo though, I get the length of the long edge at 3.03". That is quite different than the values above, I'm not sure what happened there. The piece of balsa fin stock is 6.00" long.
Along the way I found out that Google Photos switches the display resolution of jpg's to 72 dpi (nondestructively, but you have to know to switch it back). it does not do that with png's so I will prefer posting in that format. TRF resizes destructively (incorrect jpg headers) so I don't post printable images here.
For those with dimensionally challenged printers, the decal sheet is 3.00 x 9.02 inches overall, and the height of the "FIREBIRD" text is 1.04 inches.
The fins were more of a problem. I can't easily see the diecut lines either by eye or in the scans I did. I suspect that I'm looking at the back of the fin sheet, and I can't flip it over without opening the bag. By playing with the photo though, I get the length of the long edge at 3.03". That is quite different than the values above, I'm not sure what happened there. The piece of balsa fin stock is 6.00" long.