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Sign of the times...


Paul Robertson

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With family games night limiting my time on the baseboard today I decided instead to do a bit more on the signage sheet I've been putting together. I noticed that with the commercial sheets you buy there is inevitably quite a lot of wastage as I don't need most of the signs they supply. Also due to the very specific nature of my project there are also a lot of signs that I require that are not available commercially. I therefore decided to try and create a sheet myself. For the standard signs there are plenty of jpegs of DfT appropriate diagrams I could download, copy and paste. For the others it was a mixture of looking at prototype signage gantries and bashing it together on the computer

 

I use Microsoft publisher as my preferred graphic design tool as it is relatively simple to use. The below it the result:

 

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I've already done one trial print when I was halfway through to check quality using a sheet of photopaper to give a bit of reflectivity feel that modern signage has. 15991646442565454854941096398311.jpg.abd091e5ef6c480ce47bac0b80ef240a.jpg

 

Whilst relatively happy with the outcome I've since changed some of the text sizes to get them a little more readable so the detail stands out a bit more. It will be a long time before these end up on the layout (final dressing stage) but I've enjoyed the research that went with creating this  as well as the chance to have fun with create the Seahaven Harbour Authority with their own unique logo. I also managed to get my favourite tipple and chocolate bar on the advertising hoardings! Such is the fun of modelling! Will hopefully be back to physical modelling again this weekend. 

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