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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Tue Feb 5 21:01:59 2013, in response to Re: Plane Crashes, Italians Paint It Over, posted by RockParkMan on Mon Feb 4 23:23:24 2013. The blue ball and the fuselage billboard logo for the final post 1987 schemes were digitized and I have those on 3.5" discs in my home files. The Clipper names I didn't get around to digitizing yet.We made the stencils the old fashioned way, projected up on a drawing board to size, then traced on mylar and then pounced on the aircraft where the painter would hand brush it. The fuselage logos were laid out the same way and masked by hand, and beleive it or not, they used to use xacto blades to cut the masks out - which we later found out that the FAA had a freak out after the Hawaiian aircraft lost its top. The 747 masks were huge. In my paint paperwork I do today, there is a warning not to use metal scrapers or scoring with an xacto blade anywhere near a fuselage, wing, engine or door. Nowadays, the artwork is all digital and I email it to a guy in Louisiana who cuts the masks by a big azz lazer printer/cutter, we can paint as many colors as we want using multiple layers registered to three points. Or as small as 3/16" high stencils for maintenance marks. Pretty cool. Airbus still uses water slide decals for exterior maintenance markings! |
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