Thanks tomcat. And rest assured, I have no commercial goal with this, like yourself we are all just hobbyists!
Cheers,
Gerard
To share or to sell?
I post the signs for others to copy & use free for their modeling. So if you want to share that is fine, copy or pass this forum link on to others. tomkat
Hey Tomkat!
I frequently visit a forum in the Netherlands and someone pointed out your graphics. We like them a lot and I would like to collect a number of them and publish them on a website in a zipfile / zipfiles.
Would that be okay with you please?
Gerard Wassink
Wow!!! These are all great signs. Thanks for supplying them for us to see and use.
How about signs for a few local Baltimore businesses I remember during the 1950's-1960's?
BERG'S FARM DAIRY
SUBURBAN CLUB BOTTLING CO.
ESSKAY MEATS
NATIONAL BOHEMIAN BEER
Thanks,
Roger Huber
Here's a picture of the garage as I adapted it to an outside 90 at the back of my yard. Backed the print with foam core and just set it against the backdrop. Pasted om the Shell sign and touched up the edges of the building with black marker, some acrylic light gray and a bit of rust along the top edge.
I'm sure I'll use other signs and buildings for backdrops as time goes on. Thanks for all of your great efforts, Tomkat.
Roy
VunderBob I gotta ask: can you get signage for newer eras? My layout is set in 1981 or 1982, depending on what railroad I want to run that day (branch line spinoff, if you're wondering what I'm blathering about). Anyway, I could use signs that cover the late 60s through all of the 70s. Others might like 80s and 90s signs, too. Don't get me wrong, though. I have a blast looking through the nostalgic stuff.
I gotta ask: can you get signage for newer eras? My layout is set in 1981 or 1982, depending on what railroad I want to run that day (branch line spinoff, if you're wondering what I'm blathering about).
Anyway, I could use signs that cover the late 60s through all of the 70s. Others might like 80s and 90s signs, too.
Don't get me wrong, though. I have a blast looking through the nostalgic stuff.
I model the late 1960's ( Pre-Burlington Northern) & most signs I'm looking for are pre 1970. If you do some sign or logo searches on Google images you can find more modern signs. Ebay is also a place to find signs. Just copy image & paste to MS Publisher or MS Word.
IMO, there's a few of these signs that could be used right up to the current era. Many of these products are still around. Also, if you were to wander around my home town, there are traces of some of these older signs still visible, albiet faded, on older buildings. In fact, until the building was removated and sandblasted about 8 months ago, you could still see the name of the Packard dealer on the side of the building. Another building, now torn down, had traces of a sign that was so old, even the people who had lived in the neighborhood for over 60 years couldn't remember what the building was used for originally, or even remember when the sign was fresh.
Get a decal opf the sign made, film or dry transfer, a bit of work with water, a mild solvent, or a pencil eraser, some other aging techniques, and your apparently brand new building now has age, character, and a history.
I used to be clueless, but i've turned that around 360 degrees.
Thanks
Would you have one for Hungarian Flour. I believe it was made here in Denver. Their motto was "Best for all High Altitude Baking"
Thank you very much!!!