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It's obviously possible, but probably introduces hassles that aren't worth it.

Not a bad idea. However, I think the air filter lid in particular is not flat, it's actually domed, which would make that one difficult.

The 3D printed stencil test went very well. I don't think anything on the truck is smaller than 0.5" tall letters. In this test, the 0.3" tall letters started to have some minor problems, where the diagonal cut across the zero is now cut completely out and the quote became one single hole...

Maybe/probably? My general philosophy is that anytime I have to do something that hasn't been done before, do it right and reproducibly so that other people won't have to do it for the first time [again]. That usually means it's more expensive for me to do it initially, but maybe it's worth a...

After tons of searching, I came to the conclusion that no reasonably close font exists. So I hired a professional font designer to make me the exact font that I wanted, that matches each letter I could find in photos as closely as possible. Let me introduce "Tactical Vehicle" stencil font...

You would think that would be the case, but it doesn't seem like it. Years ago I started a folder on my computer called "Paint & Markings" where I put example pictures of stenciling on FMTVs. The pictures are collected from many sources (e.g. GovPlanet, user posts, military pictures, pictures...

That's not very tough to make. Most CAD software (illustration software too probably, but I'm an engineer not an artist) can load in a background picture, and you just draw on top of it to approximate it.

The round circle with the arrow/harpoon through it? I can't really see what they are... picture is not high-res enough.

The N/W/V on your shelter look a little different than my collage pictures. Even so, these are getting really close. It may not be too much trouble to swap out a couple letters from a different font, perhaps. I found these other fonts were also fairly close...

That MARSH Font does look really close. It's spot on, except for the odd rounded corners on the M/N/V/W.

Yes, but there are still more than 2 different O/0's, so I think there are more than one font used. They would be fairly similar though (e.g. cuts in the same spot, just slightly different widths and styles, perhaps). This collage is just a sampling... I have a whole folder of pictures that...

Does anyone know what the correct font for FMTV stencils is? Here is a collage of images from my archive, showing various FMTV stenciled lettering. Some key letters to note the shape of... Letter "F" only has one cut, in the top horizontal stick. Letter "E" has cuts in only the top and bottom...