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Cracking the Code! – A guide to getting the star-and-bar insignia just right

A restored Vought F4U-4 Corsair in Korean War era U.S. Marine Corps markings. (Wikicommons)
If you are one of many modelers who has acquired an ARF-type model of an American airplane, the chance that its star-and-bar markings is correct is about one in 10. It’s sad but true. Among models built by usually careful modelers and displayed at scale meets the situation is somewhat better, but incorrect markings still outnumber the correct ones. What is it about the star-and-bar marking that makes it so difficult to get right and...

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