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Sign painter visits the C.V.S.Ry

Modeling
#1

The Candlewood Valley Scenic Railway received a visit from a talented sign painter today. Two of the line’s steam locomotives finally received numbers and lettering for the C.V.S.Ry. Here Sean pulls newly lettered Porter #3 in front of Dave’s Big Indian for photos…

This loco will be assigned to yard goat service once the front and rear pilots are finished.

Shortly thereafter, Shay #2 arrived for photos…

As you probably have figured out by now, the letters aren’t hand painted, but rather cut vinyl. The first pass through the vinyl cutter produced some letters that were too large for the locos. These were used to letter the carrier for Shay #2…

An experimental “knock-out” version was used to identify a transmitter…

With the Shay finally lettered, I think I can call that project, started over a year ago, complete :smiley:

#2

Hey, that works :slight_smile:

#3

Love that old “T Boiler”!

#4

Cool
:slight_smile:

#5

Jon Radder said:
The Candlewood Valley Scenic Railway received a visit from a talented sign painter today. Two of the line’s steam locomotives finally received numbers and lettering for the C.V.S.Ry. Here Sean pulls newly lettered Porter #3 in front of Dave’s Big Indian for photos…

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/LocoNumbering_05-800.jpg)

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/LocoNumbering_04-800.jpg)

Slobber, Slobber…I LOVE that Shay! letters look fab By the Way! cale

#6

Looks like you’re having fun with the lettering, Jon. Nice work.

#7

The lettering looks great.
Ralph

#8

Looks good Jon. I love that shay as well.

#9

Thanks for the comments. Now I just need to make a half dozen or so logging cars for the Shay to pull :slight_smile:

Lets see now… 1 Year to weather and letter locomotive; 2 years building a tank-on-flat… etc. etc. - At this rate I could have 6 log cars done on about 8 years :o

#10

Looks good Jon

#11

Dragging up an old thread for an update. The paint shop recently came up with a numbering scheme and lettering design for our diesels. First out of the shop is M-10. Sister 45 tonner M-11 will follow shortly once it leaves the electric shop.

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Post2/CVSRy-M10-01.JPG)

#12

Jon,

Wondering if you could use the M-11 to carry the batteries and controller for the M-10. Like a pair of Box Cabs with all 4 trucks pulling. I know there is a lot of room under those hoods.

#13

Jon, Lettering looks sharp. Did you create lettering yourself ? I like it because it is a solid, bold white …almost looks like pad printed lettering. Alps printed decals as of late have been thin and black background shows thru. Are they hard to apply?
Dave

#14

Hi Dave -

These are cut vinyl letters and graphics. I design the artwork myself in Illustrator and they cut them for me at work (I work in a sign shop). They are not very hard to apply if you take your time. They are not re-positionable, so you need to get it right the first time. I made the mistake of doing a car by eye the other night when I was tired and ended up with some crooked lettering :frowning:

If you would like to give cut vinyl a try, contact Del Taparo at G-Scale Graphics.

The major problem with vinyl Vs. decals is size and complexity limitations. My herald is almost 30% larger that I would like it to be, but at the smaller sizes it’s nearly impossible to weed out the scrap vinyl. One method that has been suggested to me for very small work is to apply the vinyl un-weeded, then strip off what you don’t want.

#15

I like the ones you have on the back window of your car. They looked pretty kewl!