SLAF An-32 WIP

[Tweek]

This year will see the 52nd nation to attend the Royal International Air Tattoo, in the form of the Sri Lanka Air Force, who'll be sending an An-32B - first time I'll have seen one, so I'm chuffed about that! (Full participation list here, more to come in all likelihood http://www.airtattoo.com/airshow/Aircraft/participation). In light of this, I decided to paint up Piglet's An-32 in SLAF colours.

However, being from Sri Lanka, photos of them aren't exactly easy to come by. In fact I've only found 5 photos to go by. So I've tried to piece together a paint from a number of different air frames. There's still a few small problems though:

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1. The font for the serial numbers is wrong, but I can't seem to find which one, or at least one similar to what they use. Arial Narrow, which I'm using temporarily, just isn't tall enough. I could stretch it a bit, as a last resort...
2. Not sure what the red text says near the warning markings. Currently says "DON'T KNOW" on my paint!
3. The roundel is wrong for the air frame I'm painting, but I can't seem to find the alternate one that it's using.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sri-L...32B/1614060/L/ - The actual aircraft I'm painting up
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sri-L...32B/1429211/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sri-L...32B/1574414/L/
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Sri-L...32B/0709846/L/
http://www.airforce.lk/fixed_wing_gallery.php - there's an An-32 amongst that lot.

Any extra info would be very useful, if, for some reason, anyone has any idea about SLAF aircraft!

When it's done, I'll be including a factory fresh paint (as above), and a weathered/dirty one to go with it. Both will have custom spec maps, too.

[Matt Wynn]

looks about right, tweek if you want me to attempt to create the text as images for you let me know :ernae:

[falcon409]

The red text most likely says "DANGER PROP"

[Tweek]

That'd make sense! Cheers.

And Smoothie, I think they've used a different style of lettering on that air frame, as it certainly looks different to SCM 3304 - one of the new, refurbished An-32s. I suppose if you could make images out of it then that'd be great!

[Matt Wynn]

basically looks like an arial typeface squashed up a bit, as you have it will more than likely do...