MAKE YOUR OWN CUSTOM MODEL RAILROAD SIGNS - FROM PHOTOS!
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- 🔶Custom signs help make your model railroad unique - See how I do it. Take a pic of your favorite restaurant, store, street sign, whatever - and put it on your layout!
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I just found you from DJ's Trains. Cool !
Hi Eddie, thanks for the sub! Take care - Bill.
Very useful these signs look 100% real. 😮😅
Thank you Harold! Have a good night - Bill.
My home is in Newark NY. I was thinking of modeling parts of the railroad near my home. Great idea!
Hi Mike! Heck yeah, that would be cool!
Great upload today enjoyed it very much.
Thanks Medway, I appreciate it!
@@MyFingerLakesRailwayLayout Thank you very much for replying to my comment. I would love if you could take a quick look at my page and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.I have a new video out now.Hope you like and share.
Hi Dave, sorry it took me so long to check out your channel. You're obviously doing something right - you've got way more subs than I do! Wow, how did you do it? Maybe I don't post often enough, idk. One thing DJ's Trains told me the other day, is to not mix content. In other words, create a separate channel for non-railroad videos. I took his advice, and also created a Facebook business page (even though I am not a business, doesn't matter) so my FB is separate now too. You can follow me at facebook.com/MyFingerLakesRailwayLayout. Not much there yet, just getting it started. So I would say the biggest thing you could improve on is your thumbnails. I never paid much attention to them, just let YT pick a frame from a video and that was my thumbnail. Then I watched this video - ruclips.net/video/NfieDyZq0D8/видео.html - and made some big changes. I subbed to your channel, looking forward to your next video (and thumbnail!) - Cheers! Bill
great job pops
Thanks AD!
Great content. I'm going to have to try this on my layout. Thanks for the video.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome videos. Today down in Geneva Yard had CP ES44AC with the NS SD40-2.
I heard! Saw some videos some guys posted, pretty cool.
It’s so cool to have been at a real life place, then see it reproduced in HO scale. Great job!
Thanks! Couldn’t have done it without your photos!
@@MyFingerLakesRailwayLayout If there is ever anything you want more photos of, let me know. I’m always looking for reasons to go to the Finger Lakes. Plus, I love knowing you will make fantastic models from the pics!
@@MyLifesTracks awesome!
Thanks for the tip and tutorial. This is definitely a great and cheap way to add realism to a layout.
Glad you said that: “add realism.” That’s exactly it. Thanks!
Just found your channel- love it! Great mix of webinar/presentation/video styles.
Thanks man, glad you like it!
Another nice presentation, always great to watch. The signs look amazing too, all the best Darren 👍
Thanks Darren!
Great video. I’m about to post a similar one on my channel. Great minds :)
Oh cool, I'm sure I'll learn something!
Hello I love your sign making videos. These videos inspired me to do my own. I have a few questions if you can answer I do not have the post pieces you have
Can you also use toothpicks I own toothpicks they look wooden and I have acrylic silver paint to paint them.
To make the signs i do a different technique. I make them in Adobe illistrator using the shape tool and text tool, finding the font that is used for traffic signs and scaling the font to the shape and scaling the whole layout of the sign . I also use different color swatches to fill the shapes like faded colors and bright colors. I'm making them incase I own a model railroad in the future but also use it for my christmas village and matchbox and hot wheels cars but I also love the hobby. I print them out on plain paper and cut them out and I want to paint the back of the cutouts gray acrylic paint. Is that a good idea to do. Or will something happen with the paint and the paper
Hi Gabriel, sounds like you're having fun with the hobby of miniatures (cars, villages, signs, trains.) You have some good questions. Of course the final decision is what looks good to your eye. But to be prototypical, toothpicks are just too big (although I did use them myself when I started out.) Luke Towan recommends styrene rod just under 1 mm in diameter, which is what I use now. It looks a lot better. I usually steer clear of silver, and would use a real light grey. I like what you're doing in Adobe. I do a similar process when I don't have a good prototype photo to go by. As far as painting the back of the paper - I don't think that will work. The paint will bleed through. I found some very thin plastic laminate material which I rattle can grey, then glue my signs to that. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions, I'm no expert but I'm glad to share my techniques. Thanks - Bill
@@MyFingerLakesRailwayLayout your welcome
Thanks for the tutorial, there’s nothing like a picture of the real thing to make the scene look real. It’s a little scary to see a sign at a crossing that says there is a remote control train at a crossing…. Better be extra careful, lol.
Yeah, RCO - Remote Control Operations - another way railroads are trying to eliminate jobs. I assume they only use the RCO box when they're switching cars, but IDK. Take care - Bill.
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Get rid of the generic WalthersWorld look and give your layout the unique look and feel it deserves! Not available in stores! Hurry! Build Now! Not one, not two, but THREE signs!!!
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