Re: Ship designation decals, suggestions...

Thomas Pope wrote:

> With a couple of friends I've started to work on producing custom
decals for
> miniatures that we'll be offering for sale relatively soon, providing
all goes
> well.
>
> One of the packs I wanted to make is a set of decals for ship
identification.
> (usually set to the base)  These would be block lettering and provide
> (hopefully) everything someone would need to mark their entire fleet.
>
> So, if you would be so kind as to review the symbols below and let me
know if
> there is anything represented in their fleet that could not be
constructed with
> that set.
>
> -------- Begin Symbol Set ---------
> SC-1 SC-2 SC-3 SC-4 SC-5 SC-6 SC-7 SC-8 CT-1 CT-2 CT-3 CT-4 CT-5 CT-6
> FF-1 FF-2 FF-3 FF-4 FF-5 FF-6 DD-1 DD-2 DD-3 DD-4 DD-5 DD-6
> DDM-1 DDM-2 DDM-3 DDM-4 DDM-5 DDM-6
> DH-1 DH-2 DH-3 DH-4 CL-1 CL-2 CL-3 CL-4 CE-1 CE-2 CE-3 CE-4
> CH-1 CH-2 CH-3 CH-4 BC-1 BC-2 BC-3 BC-4 BB-1 BB-2 BB-3 BB-4
> DN-1 DN-2 DN-3 DN-4
> BDN-1 BDN-2 BDN-3 BDN-4 SDN-1 SDN-2 CVL-1 CVL-2 CVH-2 CVH-2 CVA-1
CVA-2
> -3 -3 -4 -4 -5 -5 -5 -5 -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -7 -7 -7 -8 -8 -8 -8 -9 -9 -9
-9
> -10 -10 -10 -10 -X -X -X -X -M -M -M -M
> --------- End Symbol Set ----------
>
> I'm trying to design a set that can encompass most fleets with little
or no
> decal clipping, so if the overwealming concenus is that fleets rarely
have more
> than 2 Battledreadnoughts and often have more than 6 Corvettes, I can
adjust the
> list accordingly.  For the times when someone has a fleet outside the
"norm"
> I've included a bunch of additoinal numbers at the end, complete with
dashes to
> help line them up.
>
> This set covers everything in the fleet book except for the NAC Heavy
Frigates
> (designated as simply a frigate in the data box) Would people like to
see a FH
> classification as well?
>
> The -X might be useful for experimental craft, and the -m for missile
craft.
> I'm kind of waffling on the missile destroyer thing.	Currently I've
got DDM for
> the missile destroyers used by various fleets, as well as -M to add
the
> designation to another type of ship.
>
> At any rate, I'll welcome all comments on the subject.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
> P.S. On a related topic, I'd love to hear any suggestions for decal
sets people
>      would like to see; any scale and any era.
>
> --
> Thomas Pope
> Human Computer Interaction Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope

I would simply love some proper red stars for my ESU fleet...coupled
with the fleet
logo in different colors...

Sindre