A little help please

I recently purchased several models off of e-bay. Most arrived in good shape, but three of them have broken/damaged/missing parts. I have located some of the pieces I need but need help locating the rest. They are:

Hasegawa 1/72 SP-5B Marlin----badly damaged decal sheet. These are completely unusable

Testors 1/48 T-38----Damaged canopy. Theres a big chunk broken out of it and Squadron doesn’t have a replacement.

Monogram 1/72 F7F-3----Missing canopy and broken prop. This canopy is available from squadron. I really need that prop though.

I figure I’m SOL on the Marlin decal sheet. Any suggestions here? I can piece together the national markings and maybe the rescue markings, but what about the prop warning stripe and the tail markings? The T-38 is rough but most of the damage to it is repairable. Except for the canopy. If I had the missing piece I would try to vacuu-form a replacement. The F7F, Is there another prop I could use? Thanks for any and all help.

Could you scan the original decal sheet, clean up the bad spots in PhotoShop or something like that, and then print your own sheet?

Sorry, I can’t help with the missing / broken parts. All of the birds I still have are 1/32 scale.

Let me go through my spare parts collection and see what I can do for the T-38 canopy.

Appreciate the assistance. I would scan them except my printer won’t handle it. I wrote Hasegawa, but I doubt they will be of any help seeing as the kit has been OOP since the early eighties. You’d think that one of the AM decal houses would have done this by now.

Someone posted here a while back, but I can’t remember who it was. They printed decals from artwork provided, and at the time several people commented that he does good work. I saved a link to his web site, but have so many links I can’t remember which one it is. If nobody can remember I’ll dig through them and see what I can find.

roadkill,

The Marlin is available at most hobby shops. I guess Hasegawa decided to reissue it recently. I have seen the kit at almost every hobby shop here in Indy. As far as tail markings go, maybe you could get those generic dry transfer sheets for railroad stuff. Those seem to have a lot of variety on them. And the prop warning stripe can be painted. Hope this helps.

Kevin if worst comes to worst on the decals,the big major ones you could always take a razor blade and paper-cardboard and make stencils out of them to use.Digger