Thanks for the great signs, TomKat! I'll post pictures once they're up and lookin' good!
Jerry
JerryRR Thanks for the great signs, TomKat! I'll post pictures once they're up and lookin' good! Jerry
Great! Always looking for photos of how we all are using some of these signs. So lets see some photos! I will keep looking for more signs.
I don't beleave my luck.
I'm drawing up some plans right now for a general store (with a repair shop or something simaler added-on) and I've been needing some signs for just about all of the products you have on this latest sheet.
There are a few that I need that I don't see, but I can piece those together from several of the previous sheets.
Thank You.
P.S. I'll try to get photos up, if I remember to take some (it ain't going to be pretty. I don't have a layout, although I may be able to build a small diorama or something)
You've done an incredible job of covering the first half of the 20th century, have you consided covering some of the second half, like the 50's, 60's and 70's?
Jay
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modelmaker51 You've done an incredible job of covering the first half of the 20th century, have you consided covering some of the second half, like the 50's, 60's and 70's?
I model small town midwest (Eastern Missouri) in the 1960's. As I look for signs that I can use I run into signs that I think others could use. I check out on line auctions, collector websites ect. What ever I can find that is pre 1970 or not to modern looking I make up my pages. In small towns & small cities older signs seem to last beyound what you would find in large cities. I encourage others who want more modern signs to start a thread & sare them with others who want the newer signs! I just think that the color, artwork & design of the older signs have more appeal that is why people collect these old signs & so many reproduction signs are on the market.
Please come back from time to time as I will continue to post signs as I find them. I also encourage other to post photographs of their sign usage. Signs help tell everyone that the sceene is lifelike, gives us a clue of when & where the sceene takes place.
OH MY G*D DUDE, you're on a real ROLL!!!...ice cream, pop, oil, gas, tobacco, more tobacco!!, cigars, and more tobacco!....MAN-ly signs. These are un freaking believeable......
I have an idea to do a bunch of rusty model tin signs and lean 'em up against the side of the yard office fence as if somebody's collecting them for resale (I can't remember---did they have EBAY and CRAIG LIST back in the 50s?) ...I'll post pictures when I get a chance to do this.
The St. Francis Consolidated Railroad of the Colorado Rockies
Denver, Colorado
I'm with a lot of people on this board, this is terrific. I went to my favorite train shop yesterday and was looking for signs, but was having problems because the only gas station signs they had were for Shell, and I have two packs of those.
I've seen some decal printing software on the net for stuff like this, and saw you had responded that these can be scaled to fit any scale railroad (I'm using HO). However, I didn't see a reply to what kind of paper to use, and do the images scale easily?
Man, my color toner expenses may go up exponentially when I'm through printing all your stuff!! I guess I'll have to be selective in what I print. Like several people here, I'm trying to make a general store/auto yard, in my case modeled after a shop I found in Glendale Springs, NC, on the New River. I thought it'd be cool to do.
As for as HO scale:
1 inch = 7.25 HO Feet or 87 HO inches.
1/2 inch = 3.625 HO Feet or 43.5 HO inches.
1/4 inch = 1.81 HO Feet or 21.75 HO inches
1/8 inch = .90 HO feet or 10.875 HO inches
I use card stock for bill boards & painted signs.
For metal signs I use photo paper for a glossy look.