General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Here is an aged and sun-faded version of my Mount Penelope Railway's herald that I created in Photoshop for the side of my ice house.

The original herald was created in Adobe Illustrator based on a scan of the old CNR herald.

concretelackey wrote:

I've noticed some of you have what appear to be custom made monikers (emblems) for your own railroads. I was wondering what programs were used to make them?

I used a pencil to draw mine, then redid it in drawing ink.  My brother made a photo positive of the image, and then I had C-D-S make some dry transfer custom lettering sets for me.

Most newer boxcars and reefers got large lettering with various versions of the herald:

I made a few changes in my second and third orders to accomodate other car types, and generally went with smaller lettering and heralds on the older house cars:

Wayne

doctorwayne wrote:

concretelackey wrote: I've noticed some of you have what appear to be custom made monikers (emblems) for your own railroads. I was wondering what programs were used to make them? I used a pencil to draw mine, then redid it in drawing ink.  My brother made a photo positive of the image, and then I had C-D-S make some dry transfer custom lettering sets for me. Most newer boxcars and reefers got large lettering with various versions of the herald: <photos snipped> Wayne

Nice stuff! Is that Eloroa Gorge as in southern Ontario?

I made mine using Paint Shop Pro.

Nick

This one is dressed down a bit

concretelackey wrote:

This one is dressed down a bit

Now THAT looks good.

And it's your fault. I'm working on one now, like we need another project

The rectangular one took me about 45 minutes in Windows PAINT (1st time I ever played there) while the others took about 10 minutes each. I might trade the falcon shown on the last one for the eagle on the previous versions.

Thanks for the compliment!

decisions, decisions, decisions....LOL

concretelackey wrote:

decisions, decisions, decisions....LOL

Personally, I like the falcon. Teh eagle seems too muck KoPac to me.

Dallas Model Works wrote:

Nice stuff! Is that Elora Gorge as in southern Ontario?

Thanks for the kind words.   Yes, same Elora Gorge:  I just liked the sound of it, although the roads that I'm modelling now are free-lanced subsidiaries of the EG&E.  I've still got lots of rolling stock lettered for it, but less than a dozen locos, most of which are diesels more suited to the fifties than my current '30s era.   I am surprised that you've heard of it, though, and I must say, quite impressed.

Wayne

Microsoft Word!

Lee 

Wroking on Half Moon's

if you haven't heard, I'm a Daylight Fan. So I Paint9ed) the sircle to look like a Half (okay, not exactly, but you get the idea) Moon.

I did mine using Corel photoPaint    works good  is somewhat ez to use.   Its also good for touching up photos if you have a digital camera

I saw the ones above  is looking good

How's this look?