1-600 RAF Type C Fin Flash Decals

These 1-600 RAF Type C Fin Flash Decals provide RAF Type C 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 C Fin Flash markings for 1-600 scale aircraft.

RAF Type C 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 C Fin Flash Scale: 1-600

Historical Information

The Type C family of markings was introduced in July 1942 as the RAF refined its wartime identification system. The reduced white area lowered visual contrast while still retaining all three British national colors.

From 1942 through the end of the war, the Type C fin flash became a standard companion to Type C and C.1 fuselage markings on many RAF aircraft. It appeared across Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Coastal Command, Tactical Air Force, transport, reconnaissance, and other roles.

Representative aircraft include the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Typhoon, Hawker Tempest, de Havilland Mosquito, Avro Lancaster, Handley Page Halifax, Bristol Beaufighter, North American Mustang, and Douglas Dakota.

As with roundels, exact fin-flash dimensions could differ by aircraft type. The narrow-white Type C appearance, however, is one of the most characteristic features of mid- and late-war RAF aircraft.