You might want to give this stuff a try, colors come out vibrant, it's a tiny bit flexible, think "matte white vinyl" for surface.   We'ved used these to put prices on cars sitting outside with excellent sun/weather resistance.   Not this exact brand, but very similar description.  The non-weather resistant are usually thick paper and not the conforming vinyl that lays down on a front, side, or back window without wrinkles due to the vinyl-like base.

Could color-match well by blending in with actual paint so edges of label go invisible if the inside color is close enough.   Need to laminate for glossy.

If you see square w/round corner stickers on a car lot near you, or other place outside, see if you can get a couple sheets to try, if that fails, I can send you a few.


Also, that inlet looks Much Better when Matte, sort of looks like a the upper left side corner piece in one of last photos above is low but that's if I'm nitpicking.

I could probably fit in it.

VERY Admirable that you thought ahead with all that nice conduit!   The shuttle or sub needing bulkheads drilled for added features took a bit and added some frustration.   I forgot which was the first one energized, sub I think.

If you have wire going to lights and such, might want to run 2 pair just in case something extra pops up.   The little housing for the white strobe would be a larger version of red/green markers, and the "can housing with lens" for landing light could also be created with heated plexiglass into shallow domes.  Like the train, but not dimmed or yellowish, just a 3W Cool Blue white LED.

Last little bit - write where each wire set goes on both ends with masking tape.    Like "BH Side", "M1 side", etc.   Saves you when you have a dozen red and white wires that get untwisted and you can't easily find which pairs are which, or where they are to/from.   Again, from personal experience, even at 10 drops of network, when they're all blue cables from conduit, anything helps if you don't want to run around with a Fox&Hound toner (or in your case, tugging).

Wait, no antenna on that, but light shape, size and locations are shown, right is a mirror of this left side, tail is shown clearly as a clear upside down dixie cup for the white flashing nav light"

Like any other plane, Red on left, green on right, white flashing at top of tail.  The diagram is to tell what anohter plane is doing, what the nav lights of another plane nearby look like at different angles for civilians to not bump into each other in the middle of the sky.



The blink pattern of red/green white changes to help ID craft at dark for friendlies, but I don't know what that pattern is.

Does Marine One has A-A refueling probe?   If not, here's more detail of a tricked out one (w/refueling):
Either way, landing lights are shown VERY clearly just to the left of the Refueling probe in this photo. (also one on the right bright white, search light, if equipped is likely a small bub on bottom, not a giant police helicopter looking thing)

Most all of the below show a vertical antenna angled a bit toward port on the outside of the football.


More random photos for details on pick and choose, I gave up on Marine One specific, and am giving you the Pavehawk "enhanced" type that was in downtown LA a week or tow ago, a base for Marine One.

This one shows the detail of where the side lights are, right at the front outside of the landing gear housing:





I'll keep looking, but that last one shows well, white light on top of football at Twil Fin, seen from all angles.   Front searchlight, small pivot at bottom, not blatantly obvious.

Unsure if this is American or not.  Search Light, Green/Starboard side Nav/marker light:


Thai Blackhawk, slightly different Port Light location:


Landing Lights appear to be one on each side, Different than a search light, which I don't think kthey have, probably a FLIR pod, but no search lights, maybe other stuff too.



IR View at night (different location of IR landing light or steerable?), the rectangular lights (Front facing 'diamonds')  are are wavelength sensitive retro-reflective tape illuminated from ground/carrier/etc.  They appear black to nearly invisible in daylight.


Pretty good photo of anentta right next to the top white flashing nav light, as well as position of the starboard/green/right side nav light (for other people to avoid, first diagram above shows how the red/green/white are used to tell if you're on a collision course, or will be, in civilian airspace.


Another image showing White Nav on top of football at top of tail, Red/starboard/left light location on landing gear bulb:

Very cool work.   The two probes that stick up and out, then have a 3" spigot forward slightly behind, but to the rear of cockpit on either side are anemometer with pitot tube sensor side.

Roll this 180° to vertical, there's two because they can get clogged/iced over/malfunction.   Lets pilots know how fast they're going.



How it works:



For the plexiglass, look on eBay for a 60W ultrasonic knife, they magick themselves through plastic, plexi and about anything else with an essentially dull blade like magic, once in a while they'll have on eunder $50.   Same for ultrasonic welder, bit they have price tags on the near side of "that's insane".

When Writing tags for wires, many find it easier to get the tags ready for that area and wires expected to be there, put a date on em, then find that wire and wrap the label around it.  There are very cool little wire tag printers that do that excellent, but they're not a 'get one to goof around' level toy.



Feeding is spendy, they use thick and long Dyno type label tape, but the "special tags" have enough clear good stickum  to attach to cable, so the label can have a lot on it and left out, or wrap enitrely around cable set.

IOW, tape labels are perfectly fine, but try to write what you can on them before attaching to cable, it's a pain to try do freehand writing while holding the bundle in other hand.   Any sort of label, however, is infinitely better than no label at all.    When you built it, remember to think "People are going to be trying to fix/enhance this in a year or three, if thi is the first time I was looking at  it, woul dthe functions be clear?".   The only Rule to follow is onl use Red/Black for power lines, you can get away with them being on motor drive lines, but Most all that look for the suppl are looking for Red (+5-18V) and Black (-/gnd) to check first for something broken.   If they're ALL Red and white wires, well that's how you get Very bad words, wishes,  hexes, and generally hate in your general direction. Sometimes by your past you yourself.   We all learn the hard way, if it works the first time, we're proficient and didnn't learn anything new.   Fixing problems learns people.

I haven't seen any, red is on left/port side, ,they may have a dark red to blak-ish lens for shining IR around, but they don't look red.   A defense system is that goofy lookingreddish yellow cylinider with a ton of little panes making it, that's on the bottom in one of the Marinen One photos, but that could have been the new Marine One, haven't seen it on other Marine One unless it's retractable.

Can you post a couple photos with Ugly Contrast ARF style circling and scribbling to it like a conspiracy theorist?

You guys are doing GREAT!   I see this as two projects, as your Mural has more pure work and win stuffed into it than the dragon ship, before the Helo!

Those Medivac side windows look Excellent!   I was expecting them to be nearly flat and boring.  I love the way you exceed expectations, even after years of you exceeding expectations and raising the bar!

It's true.  Boggle our minds with detail and we simply don'thave time to point out what's wrong unless it's a helo mechanic/crew type person looking at it, in which case he'd say "Wow, ,by High School Students?!?!?"

I strongly approve of your document protecting glass.  You got that shot with the light in it just for me, didn't you.  How sweet.  

Stripes look good.  Though I agree with others that a "half pyramid", except with curved edges, sweeping up to match the triangular base of the White House.   That's just extra work, maybe make the triangle starting base more subtle?  It sort of sticks out as "hey, I'm a triangle cut out and the house was slapped onto me".

Red only goes on port/left.  If it's on tail, others in air will be confused.  Or is that for fun?   Nav lights, only 3:  Red/port, Green/starboard, white/tail.  Then landing lights and optional search light.

I haven't seen it illuminated at night as red light.  I'll look again for "dusk photos of black hawk helicopter". on illumination, never really looked before.