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    • xdford posted
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    Thank you both for your well thought out replies, one question though

    Are there any companies that sell things like station signs (Preferably NSWGR era) or similar items such as platform number signs?

    "DCook"

    Rather than hunt around in shops and coming to a dead end more than likely, take a couple of pictures of different signs that you want and copy and paste them on to the vacant spaces in the print out sheets that I use.  I have done this with signal arms, station signs, speed limit , slow,  road signs, W signs etc in those vacant spaces along with loco number boards which has worked out well for me!  You can scale them up/ down accordingly.  

    By the way, for those buildings I use a single A4 sized sticker paper and fit on as much as I can. The sheets work out to about $1 each at Office Jerks or similar. It also makes it easy to get onto the foam core.  while I use old margarine lids etc as a backing for those signs and signal arms.

    While I have not tried it, you could also take a few pix of the fronts of vending machines and stick them on small appropriate sized wooden blocks etc and paint the sides black or whaever colout as I remember a number of NSW stations had them on platforms. They would be small enough to act as fillers.

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers

    Trevor

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    Edited 08 May 2020 13:49, 8 months ago, edited by xdford

    Thank you both for your well thought out replies, one question though

    Are there any companies that sell things like station signs (Preferably NSWGR era) or similar items such as platform number signs?

    "DCook"

    Rather than hunt around in shops and coming to a dead end more than likely, take a couple of pictures of different signs that you want and copy and paste them on to the vacant spaces in the print out sheets that I use.  I have done this with signal arms, station signs, speed limit , slow,  road signs, W signs etc in those vacant spaces along with loco number boards which has worked out well for me!  You can scale them up/ down accordingly.  

    By the way, for those buildings I use a single A4 sized sticker paper and fit on as much as I can. The sheets work out to about $1 each at Office Jerks or similar. It also makes it easy to get onto the foam core.  while I use old margarine lids etc as a backing for those signs and signal arms

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers

    Trevor

    Edited 08 May 2020 13:44, 8 months ago, edited by xdford

    Thank you both for your well thought out replies, one question though

    Are there any companies that sell things like station signs (Preferably NSWGR era) or similar items such as platform number signs?

    "DCook"

    Rather than hunt around in shops and coming to a dead end more than likely, take a couple of pictures of different signs that you want and copy and paste them on to the vacant spaces in the print out sheets that I use.  I have done this with station signs, speed limit , slow,  road signs, W signs etc in those vacant spaces along with loco number boards which has worked out well for me!  You can scale them up/ down accordingly.  

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers

    Trevor