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Decal Search-Northern Pacific

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Decal Search-Northern Pacific
Posted by Calapooya on Monday, November 28, 2022 1:27 PM

I'm looking for decala for Northern Pacific heavyweight passenger cars.  I believe they would be railroad roman gold.  I've looked at Microscale, ebay seller K4Decals & Nothern Pacific Historical Society.  No luck so far.  Suggestions?

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, November 28, 2022 9:29 PM

Can you work with any vector graphics programs? I'd suggest creating your own artwork and then have custom decals made up. I've heard good things about this fellow named Bill Brillinger:

https://www.pdc.ca/rr/custom_decals/

You can download a specific typeface or lettering style here:

http://www.railfonts.com/

then use a graphics program to layout and scale the car lettering you need.

http://www.railfonts.com/cgi-bin/font_shop/fontshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=page7.html#

You could possibly get away with using Word or a similar program. I use Affinity Designer and for years before that, CorelDRAW.

     Just a thought —  Ed

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Posted by Calapooya on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 1:22 PM

I think I've figured it out.  I use WordPerfect.  I downloaded the truetype font for Railroad Roman and installed it into the word processor.  A test print worked fine but I'm not sure about the gold color WordPerfect has.  Now to get some decal paper.

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