If I had the space, I'd use a bunch of the smaller ones to do an outfield fence at the minor league ball field!
These are great. Keep 'em coming! I've pulled a few images myself. The Baltimore American Beer sign came from an antiques website.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Yes keep those photos coming.....& here is a new page!
Had time to do another page
Keep coming back as I will be adding more signs as I find Them.
Had some time today....here are some more signs!
It is a new year & I got my "SICK" computer fixed & I have some more signs!
MORE!
Hello Tomkat,
it's very fine Signs.
Do you have anny of them in modern stile?
Greets
Frank
Here add some signs to your layout!
Wow! Thanks for the signs it gives me ALOT of ideas!!
Tomkat, my hearty THANKS from another Missourian. Love these, and the hardest part will be picking out which ones to use on my layout and its buildings...
Do you have any signs that would be more common in the Southwest/Western U.S.? My fictional RR is set in the Southwest (AZ, CO, NM, ...).
Again - many, MANY thanks for your time and for sharing! Maybe I'll see you sometime at the Boeing shows. Our MRR club heads up for most of those.
Jim in Cape Girardeau
Found some more!
Some movie + ect.
Lets see those signs on your layout!.....here is a few more!
Here they are! More signs!
Here are more signs. Just copy, paste & resize for your scale.
Keep checking back as I will try to add more pages of signs as I find them.
I'm sorry to say that I am having a hard time with your great pictures. I save each sheet to a jpg file but whenever I try to print them out, they look blurry. Larger text is not clear, fuzzy around the edges. Small text becomes "greeked". I have tried importing these into Word and another program that allows editing of photos and tried the 'sharpen' tool but it just looks bad when printed out. I'm using a color inkjet printer that prints beyond 1200 dpi but the signs are not at that resolution so they come out in low resolution. Any suggestions?
If you're not already doing it, try printing on a color laser instead of an Ink Jet. That helps.
I have the advantage of doing N scale, so I shrink them down a bit, which helps "tighten up" the image.
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a color laser printer. I guess I'll play with the settings on my inkjet again and see if I can get any better results. But I may just be restricted to printing those that are ok to print small for HO display.
tedski I'm sorry to say that I am having a hard time with your great pictures. I save each sheet to a jpg file but whenever I try to print them out, they look blurry. Larger text is not clear, fuzzy around the edges. Small text becomes "greeked". I have tried importing these into Word and another program that allows editing of photos and tried the 'sharpen' tool but it just looks bad when printed out. I'm using a color inkjet printer that prints beyond 1200 dpi but the signs are not at that resolution so they come out in low resolution. Any suggestions?
Sorry for your problems, I think that photobucket and/or this web site reduces the size of the file.
I make these up in MS Publisher first & then I have to copy & paste into Irfanview to make it into a jpg file then upload into photobucket then paste into the forum. When I print for myself I print right from the publisher file. I am trying more to make the signs bigger that way there is more detail.
Here are some other links you might try
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=114404
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/album.php?albumid=721
tomkat
Thanks for the links. I've signed up with Trainboard and will try downloading the signs from there. I think you are right - sometimes a lot of detail is lost in translation and the resulting file is probably a lot smaller than what you started with. They are GREAT signs. Thanks for all of your work.
tedski I guess I'll play with the settings on my inkjet again and see if I can get any better results.
Actually, a good photo quality inkjet should do a better job than many color lasers. You need decent paper and best quality settings. BUT the images you are opening up here and saving for printing are 75dpi. All your 600 dpi inkject are doing is faithfully rending the 75dpi.
Co-owner of the proposed CT River Valley RR (HO scale) http://home.comcast.net/~docinct/CTRiverValleyRR/
tomkat-13I make these up in MS Publisher first & then I have to copy & paste into Irfanview to make it into a jpg file then upload into photobucket then paste into the forum. When I print for myself I print right from the publisher file. I am trying more to make the signs bigger that way there is more detail.
tomkat, have you tried pasting the small signs up in a photo editing program instead of into publisher prior to creating the JPG? Publisher has a tendency to reduce resolution of images. Also I noticed that if I copies a 180dpi (which publisher thinks is 157dpi) image into a photo editing program it comes out as 75dpi.Alan
Boy - I think that's exactly what's happening. First the software is degrading the image and then my printer is doing its best to print a lower quality image. A couple of the largest signs have come out passably as decals (especially since the lower quality can help make them look aged/weathered) but none of the medium or small ones.