Signage for flats with WWII Planes

If you have access to a printer experiment with different fonts, font colors, and font sizes on plain paper for the sign.
In my use of balsa wood to build model airplanes, decals donʻt adhere very well unless the balsa is sealed first, so you could just cut and glue the paper signs on the wood.

If you are going for a weathered look with the wood grain showing through you might try using decal paper which can be purchased for either laser or inkjet printers.  The problem there is you canʻt print "white", which can be partially solved by using white decal paper.  Printer decal paper tends to be thicker so you might have to use some decal solvent to soften the decal.

My experience with decal paper was mainly working with my father help him to decorate the 1/4" scale RC planes he loved to build and fly, so the size was much larger than O Gauge.
Here is photo of my dad and his camera plane, which had a film camera mounted inside with remote controlled shutter mechanism.  When one of his buddies "lost" a plane in the swamp surrounding the flying field, he would take off, fly a grid snapping photos, and after a trip to the one hour film processor, and they would mount a search and retrieval effort.

Sorry for digressing, must be Sunday morning.

The "AERIAL RECOVERY" text on the plane was done with clear decal paper.  The larger N267 and striping was done with Monokote.

Here ya go.  Feel free to shrink to fit. 

Mitch

Thanks guys! I just may use it Mr. MITCHELL! LOL

I had thought about printing something off, but was afraid of wrinkles and peeling. I just don't understand why there is not .ore Army Air Corps stuff available. I have been asking dealers and manufacturers for years. My dad was a POW for 3.5 years in the Philipines, and want to pay tribute.

Thanks,

Joe Gozzo

I used a $5 runner flatcar I picked up at a train meet, some scrap balsa strip wood, some odds and ends along with a unassembled K-Line jet fighter kit to create a "rolling scene" of a plane being shipped to a museum.  You might be able to do something similar and put your "Army Air Corps" sign on the side of the balsa strip wood "dunnage" holding the aircraft in place.

This is another example of using scrap balsa strip wood to create dunnage around flatcar cargo.  In this case, it's a broken Lionel beacon being shipped for repair.  If I had been a little more ambitious the day I created this flatcar load, I would have put some sort sign on the side of the dunnage.

Here's a "Railfan Tower" sign I made using a PowerPoint illustration shrunk to size, printed out on paper and mounted on balsa wood.  This photo will give you an idea how the "paper-glued-to-scrap-balsa wood" looks in real life.

You can download a free and high resolution copy of the official Army Air Corps symbol at this link on the Air Force website.

I hope this info is helpful.