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Signs for tavern or bar & grill

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Signs for tavern or bar & grill
Posted by Aikidomaster on Monday, November 6, 2017 9:15 PM

I need some help finding some HO scale signs for a bar or Tavern and Grill. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Monday, November 6, 2017 9:56 PM

I used Google images, found what I liked, resized and printed.

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, November 6, 2017 10:38 PM

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by marksrailroad on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:28 AM

I've always drawn up my own then printed them off and cut them to fit. That, or you might try looking through magazines or old phone books and cutting them out and gluing them on your sign boards or buildings.

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Posted by Steven Otte on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:46 AM

Try the Facebook photo album of Forum user Tomkat-13. He used to post his vintage sign compliations here on the Forums until Photobucket tried to charge him for that privilege. But you can still find thousands of vintage signs in his Facebook album. https://www.facebook.com/pg/MissouriArkansasRailway/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1483151031943151

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Posted by HO-Velo on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:05 AM

There were some failures, but was fun cutting out the martini glass from some Evergreen transparent styrene. Btw, my daughter who pilots a Harley Davidson gifted me the Woodlandscenics riders.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 12:45 PM

Woodland Scenics dry transfers

Modeling a fictional version of California set in the 1990s Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:52 PM

A "Brass Rat" is the name for my class ring, from MIT.  The sign itself is a simple computer printout, cut to shape and framed with styrene.  Over the door, I took my ring and made a hydrocal casting.

Since this bar, made with DPM modular sections, has big windows, I made an interior for it.

The "ladies of the evening" are from a set of Preiser figures called something innocuous like "Young Girls."

The adjacent bar in the top picture has this image on the wall.

I printed it on decal paper and applied it to the brick wall, after painting a rectangular space in white to get the colors right.  I did the same with this one:

Yeah, this scene is down by the docks, so it's a little seedy.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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