Here is an idea. I never tried it, but I think it might work. Get the best, biggest photos you can of what you want. Scan them into your computer. Order some blank decal sheets. I’m pretty sure they are available. Adjust the size of the image to what you need. This will require some measuring and experimentation. Then print the images onto the blank decal sheets. I have no idea if this would produce good results. A quality printer would help. It should work in theory. I have read of it being done using photocopiers.
There must be some websites for modelers out there.

Kovy said something about the French Crusaders in the Navy Forum (topic “Rafale on Foch”):

There´s a picture of the boneyard:

http://jetart.free.fr/image-avion/cruze-landi.jpg

these are all the french F-8 left, the rest is in museums
Caption of the picture: these are all the french F-8 left, the rest is in museums

I’m clinging to my fantasy. 😉 If you want a real carrier force, buy the USS America for $1 and put our old F-14s and A-7Es on it. Unfortunatly, all the A-6Es are gone now.

The Rafale is better to be sure, but if the French F-8s have not been cut into scrap, then they would cost next to nothing to put back onto the same deck that they flew from for decades. I believe that they had many upgrades, and are much better aircraft than the old USN Crusaders.

Oh, one more thing that I forgot. As I said, Iraq lived in fear under the Saddam regime BUT also, Iraq had the best educational system of all the countries in the area (when they were almost totaly illiterate before Saddam) and one of the best Medical systems in the world (I am not kidding. Search it up). What do the Iraqis have now? Terrorist killing them by the dozens, Americans killing them as collateral damage by the dozens again, a destroyed infrastructure and living conditions of the 17th century. Can you trully come and say that they are in better conditions than when they lived under Saddam (That is before 1988, then the embargo destroyed the country and was responsible for millions of deaths of children and civilians due to lack of proper health conditions).

Before 1988 Saddam killed MILLIONS in his war to grab Iran’s oil. Then he invaded Kuwait. He slaughtered countless tens of thousands of his own people so he could hold on to power. He wiped out towns full of Iraqi men, women and children with poison gas. I saw the Iraqis cheering and dancing in the streets and tearing down statues when US troops arrived. Yes, Iraq is better without Saddam. We should have done this in 1991.
The embargo did not cause those children to die. The UN allowed him to buy food and medicine, but Saddam spent the money on more palaces and arms.
The infrastructure, as poor as it is, is now in better shape than it was before the invasion. Iraqi Bathists were institutionally killing Iraqis before the war. Now the only difference is you can see them doing it on TV with bombs. 😡

Given the typical high level of ignorance I find it hard to believe that a nation, as selfish and self-praising as Americans would really care about what kind of tyranny is happening anywhere else, as long as it does not serve their own purposes and interests.

Its true, we don’t stride across the world sweeping aside every dictator. It costs a lot of blood and money to do that, and usually we don’t if our interests are not involved. But we certainly spent a lot of blood and money in East Asia without any immediate benifit to us besides the global struggle against communist world domination. We spent trillions keeping Europe free, because we sat by and let Europe twice be devastated by war before we reacted, and we were not going to watch and let it happen again.

That said, I dont begrudge the US helping itself to the war booty(read: reconstruction projects paid for in oil)

A few companies may be making money, but the war is costing the US a fortune. Not that we anticipated this.

yeah, the much trumpeted “coalition of the willing”:

Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.

Afganistan?? El Salvador?? Eriteria?? Ethiopia??
LOL..!!!

Strikingly similar to WWII, with the US carrying most of the load. :p