RAF Dull Roundel Blue WWII

A color area from which you cut the national insignia yourself

British aviation entered the Second World War with national insignia in a deep blue and a bright red. The fighting over France showed, however, that a circle as prominent as that gives an aircraft away before the enemy even starts looking for it. The shades therefore darkened and dulled into the form the regulations of the period called dull.

The sheet offered holds no ready-made circles. It is a continuous area printed in a single shade, that is precisely that dull blue of the later part of the war. What you cut from it is up to you, and above all in what diameter.

That solves situations ordinary sheets cannot cope with. You are building a type for which the manufacturer prepared no suitable markings. You need a circle of unusual size, because the subject had the marking reduced or, on the contrary, stretched across the whole wing. Or one marking tore while being transferred and no second one the same is left anywhere. With a circle cutter with an adjustable radius a replacement is ready within a minute.

Release is done with water as with any other decal. It pays to cut while the whole sheet is still lying on a support and to separate individual rings only just before use, because free edges are easily crumpled.

The uses reach further than roundels. The area serves for recognition bands, for colored bands around a fuselage and for patching places where markings applied earlier have been damaged.

The consignment consists of the printed sheet on its own. A cutter, a knife and a support are not in it.