1-600 RAF Type A Fin Flash Decals

These 1-600 RAF Type A Fin Flash Decals provide RAF Type A Fin Flash markings for 1-600 scale aircraft miniatures. Use them to reproduce the corresponding national, service, or recognition markings on aircraft appropriate to the design and period.

Decal Information

This sheet provides RAF Type A Fin Flash markings for 1-600 scale aircraft.

RAF Type A Fin Flash

They are printed on clear-background waterslide decal paper. They need to be individually cut out. Apply over a properly prepared and gloss-coated model surface using normal waterslide-decal techniques.

Key Historical Details

Nation / Region: United Kingdom Service: Royal Air Force Period: World War II Marking: RAF Type A Fin Flash Scale: 1-600

Historical Information

Although British aircraft had used colored rudder stripes in earlier periods, the wartime fin flash was formally adopted in 1940. Early applications varied considerably in size and proportion before the RAF moved toward more standardized red-white-blue flashes later that year.

The Type A fin flash was associated with the period when Type A-1 fuselage roundels and Type B upper-wing markings were common. It became a familiar feature of aircraft during the Battle of Britain, early Bomber Command operations, and the opening years of the war in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Type A fin flashes appeared on aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Bristol Blenheim, Vickers Wellington, Handley Page Hampden, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Westland Lysander, and Fairey Swordfish.

Fin-flash dimensions could differ by aircraft type and period, and early-war examples sometimes occupied a large portion of the fin. Period photographs are therefore useful when selecting size and position.