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Walthers White Tower Restaurant

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Walthers White Tower Restaurant
Posted by willy6 on Monday, June 25, 2018 9:41 AM

I have the White Tower restaurant and want to make it a "White Castle" restaurant (older version) with the old english lettering. Does anyone make decals or dry transfer lettering for this project? I could only find WS dry transfer old english letters but they were all captial letters. 

Being old is when you didn't loose it, it's that you just can't remember where you put it.
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Posted by RR_Mel on Monday, June 25, 2018 9:51 AM

As long as you don’t need white you can make decals on a standard printer using decal paper.  I get my fonts from this site.
 
 
 
Edit:
 
You can use white backing decal paper to come up with white from a standard printer.
 
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Posted by ctyclsscs on Monday, June 25, 2018 9:51 AM

If you Google "White Castle" and "logo" you'll get a ton of different versions. It should be fairly easy to just print your own decals. Just remember to look under "images" when you do the search.

Jim

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22white+castle%22+logo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjPqdvih-_bAhUNw1kKHUPKAj0QsAQIJg&biw=1216&bih=737

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Posted by wjstix on Monday, June 25, 2018 10:00 AM

I built mine a long time ago...in fact, it may be the prior Magnusson resin kit? Anyway, I believe the Walthers kit comes with decals for both White Tower and White Castle. Not sure if Walthers offers the decals separately.

Otherwise, Tin Whistle makes an HO White Tower / White Castle kit with decals for either. You could see if they offer the decals separately, they appear to be the lettering style you want.

http://twinwhistle.com/howhitwtowerrestaurant.aspx

 

Stix
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Posted by zstripe on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 9:12 AM

Willy6,

Grafics on Demand makes custom decals for trucks which You might be able to use for Your building. The lettering is correct along with color. They are thin vinyl self stick....very easy to apply and use. Have been using them for yrs. on many of My trucks and structures. Easily cut and don't have to worry about tearing or breaking when applying. They have also made some custom decals for Me......only charge was, that they have My permission to use My design for others: At the price...it would be worth a shot, in My book. They are also pre-cut.........

http://store.graphicsdemand.com/white-castle.html

The decals in the pic', were custom made. You can't tell it is a vinyl decal.....they look like they were painted on.......numbers were dry transfers, applied by Me. Along with custom paint jobs.

Good Luck! Big Smile

Frank

 

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Posted by TheGamp on Wednesday, June 27, 2018 12:30 PM

wjstix

Anyway, I believe the Walthers kit comes with decals for both White Tower and White Castle. 

 

 

It does, but it's the same non-Old English font as the White Tower logo on the box.

If the OP wants to go whole hog, find an image on the web with the text you want and import it into a vector graphics program like the free Inkscape. Then, use the Trace Bitmap function to convert it to a vector path. You can then tweak and resize as desired and print out on decal paper.

My work-in-progress is 1980s-style and has illuminated signage, so I used the vector graphic with a Cricut machine, cut the letters out in adhesive-backed vinyl and stuck them to an electroluminescent panel from one of the Miller Engineering experimenter's kits. It's a little overexposed here but looks good in person.

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