Vintage decal help needed, please have a look

[Lee S]

Hey all, there's a thread going for the Alien Narcissus build, but I wanted to post this here separately incase anyone can spot some of the decals used on the original. I've checked a bunch of large scale jets from the era, but so far nothing.

The only one I have spotted is the Red box with '52' inside, that's from the 1/25 Centurion.

One thing I noticed was that most of the underside decals were added after filming started. There's a shot in the film where you can clearly see far less decals. This might indicate that they were rubdown decals.

 

[steve36uk]

A lot may be from Letraset sheets - dry print lettering and industrial/technical symbols-same as used in 1999

 

[Lee S]

Hey Steve, yep that's what I'm thinking too. Just need to find someone with vintage sheets that can check/scan them. I've looked at hundreds of Letraset sheets and not spotted anything yet though...

 

[JMChladek]

Revell and/or Tamiya helicopter kits such as the OH-6 Cayuse might net the red arrows since I think those were a warning marking highlighting where the tail rotor was (and the rotor head would be a potential source of greeblies). Perhaps a 1/32 Revell Phantom might have donated some stencil decals as well. Only other thing I can think of is I believe the earliest batches of Microscale military aircraft decals had come out a few years prior and many of those sheets had some pretty elaborate stencils on them (F-4 sheets for instance). It is worth a look anyway.

 

[Lee S]

Thanks! I've not checked the OH-6. The Revell Phantom like the Airfix Harrier seemed an obvious one, but alas it's not.

 

[E Q]

Wow, this is hard. Are there any clear pictures? Is there a "making of" book? What about screen captures from Aliens?

 

[Lee S]

There's kinda decent pics of the top but very few of the underside that have been shared. These are mostly screen caps from the BluRay, best I could get. Unfortunately the miniature in Aliens is a different model as the original Alien one disappeared.