Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering

["Rick Keil" <rkeil6721@hotmail.com>]

John

I just looked up the HN-126 set.  It is not quite right.  The letters have the serifs while the prototype does not.  They would work but I think I will see if I can get some exact sets done.

Thanks

Ricky

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of John Trulson <norskeviking@msn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 4:54 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering

 

 Old Champ set HN-126 has the black lettering you're looking for, and set HC-82 is same except white lettering. I have both.

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From: Rick Keil

To: CBQ@groups.io

Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 2:06 PM

Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering

Follow up request for this project. Does anyone have high quality pictures of the LO-1 (87000-87099), LO-1A (87100-87199) or LO-2 (87200-87251) series Airslides that I can use to have the decals produced?  Please contact me off list, I am will to pay for use.

Ricky 

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of William Hirt <whirt@fastmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2019 8:48 AM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Freight Car Lettering

 

Rick,

"Railroad Roman" is a generic term for that kind of lettering. Each railroad and shop had their own variation. What the people in the decal business do is get a good side and end view and then do a vector trace of the lettering in Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. Vector graphics eliminate the "jaggies" that bitmap graphics have and be scaled up. There are a few lurkers in this group who do their own decals, so hopefully they'll contact you about the what and hows of doing this.

Bill Hirt

On 4/22/2019 8:24 AM, Rick Keil wrote:

All

I am attempting to make some decals for the original order of Airlsides.  Is there a specific type of Railroad Roman font for the reporting marks and data?

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