Shannon Lifeboat

You'll be painting it and putting on the lettering and numbering. You need to acquire some decals in the right font and size.

Does this help?

http://www.becc.co.uk/contents/en-uk/d207234_RNLI_...

Do you have an inkjet printer?

You can print your own decals...but you'll need to be reasonably nifty with Photoshop or similar.

You can't print white decals on a standard inkjet printer.

Reading the 'rumourmonger' subforum on Britmodeller, it sounds like Airfix might bring out an additional decal sheet containing all the alternative names & numbers. If Airfix don't then someone likely will, as there seems to be quite a demand...

ooh now that would be good.
Waits with baited breath.

And this:http://www.becc.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p905.html
Thanks osterbo

You can get white decal paper and then print a box the same colour as the base you put the decal onto, with white lettering in the box (that doesn't then get anything printed of course).

(Assuming you can't get numbers etc in the same font/right size, as matching colours is tricky).

At first I thought it was a shame it was only a starter/beginner's set, and so won't have as much detail as the "full" sets. On second thoughts though, it makes them much more accessible, and I imagine every RNLI gift shop will be selling them. Ideal for holidaymakers on wet days!

Hopefully the paints you get aren't the colours advertised on the packaging

This month's Airfix magazine has a "first build" article on the Shannon which contains some useful detail pictures of the real thing.

Shannon decal sheet is now on the Airfix website