As a bit of an aside about making vinyl graphics for gliders. When I purchased a "new" glider a few years back I needed to change contest IDs. The cost from a local print shop was going to be expensive and I knew my own predilections would mean I would not quite like the first pass of the work (wrong color, wrong font, application screw ups, etc, etc, etc) and this extra work could add up in a hurry.

So I purchased a used hobbyist's vinyl cutter (Silhouette Cameo) on eBay for $100. Best decision I could have made. Easy to use. Good software. Short learning curve. Capacity 12 inches by 15 FEET! I haven't tried the Cricut brand but it seems just about the same. High quality supplies are cheap and quickly shipped in a multiplicity of colors from Amazon - been on my trailer for years now without any issues.

What I found is that I could easily remake and redesign graphics quickly. Fonts galore. You can curve text around a shape. You can create your own designs with the software's CAD like program (I made a glider head on profile for the back window of my airport vehicle). The ability to import graphics from a different CAD program or grabbed off the web (B/W is easiest) then stretch and contort, enlarge and shrink, to you heart's desire. I have taken pictures of worn out graphics on the sides of trailers and remade those. I was able to recreate the U shaped attachments for aileron and rudder horn covers.

12" may not seem very big but it is and works for nearly everything you might need. For the larger IDs on the bottom of your wing just print the text sideways and use the 15 foot capability. Beyond that I found myself making graphics for our club's ships - N numbers and such. The "new" towplane needed lots of "No Step" and "No Push" labeling.

What you cannot do is make multi-color graphics like what you might see wrapped on cars and trucks. The most you can do is overlay one color onto another to highlight the top layer.

My $0.02.

Enjoy, John OHM