twiggy1969 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 does anyone know what font was used for lettering and numbers on wagons thanks ,mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMS Posted June 28, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2017 Need more information; what period between say 1835 and 2017, type of wagons and possibly location; L&M, GWR, GNR, BR, TVR, LNER, DRS etc etc before a reasonable answer can be produced or are you creating a multi-volume book (;-)) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy1969 Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 sorry as i had posted in the gwr section guessed ppl would presumed that was what i was after so yes GWR pre ww11 would be a good starting point thanks mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarryscapes Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 I modified fonts in order to make my transfers, there's nothing that is perfect right from the box so to speak. At least not that I'm aware of anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy1969 Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 yes its looking like i will be drawing each letter in cad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidbr Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 It would be easier to take some photographs and work on them. Tare, Load, various figures and the G and W can be cut out, scaled and printed. Once you have a selection of letters, other words can be made. I was speaking with a Gauge O modeller the other day and he had an A4 sheet of decals (waterside) made by Precision Labels. He made his up in Word - the subject matter was WW1 military, not one of the common sets - and they dealt with them very quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Another option is to obtain a sheet of something like the HMRS transfers and if they don't do the text you want, paste letters onto a black background, scan them and clean them up then assemble your own text. GIMP is a very good package for doing this. I can highly recommend John Peck's bespoke service having made up my own lettering exactly as described above recently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy1969 Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 ive ended up doing a trace from some good wagon photos and fairly happy with the results however on the 1st sheet didnt quite get the size right so ive just resized and printed a 2nd lot also did some lettering and made up some large small and LMS for my cattle wagon rake fairly happy so far 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiggy1969 Posted July 24, 2017 Author Share Posted July 24, 2017 happy with this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Fatadder Posted July 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2017 Another option is to obtain a sheet of something like the HMRS transfers and if they don't do the text you want, paste letters onto a black background, scan them and clean them up then assemble your own text. GIMP is a very good package for doing this. I like the idea, i need to make up some toad locations, and some 'return to xxx' Will just need to get a clean set of transfers to work from Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 57xx Posted July 25, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2017 Did they use a font in the way you are meaning, as all the wagons lettering/numbering would have been hand painted on so not likely to be of a standard font at all. So if you are looking for a font on your computer etc there isn't much likely to find one the same. Pre-computers, it would have been known as a typeface and a font was a specific weight, style and size of a particular typeface. Nowadays, the term font has been bastardised and used instead of/interchangeably with typeface. Even though everything was hand painted back then, it was still standardised and of a particular typeface. You may have found the odd variation here and there but they would have been exceptions to the rule. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 When putting together wording and numbers, don't forget you can also apply 'Scaling' to them, this expands / reduces their width.On one of my old number plates - WSJ 455 - I ended up with Arial Black – Font 350, W scaled 66%, S scaled 85%, J scaled 90%, 4 & 5 scaled 90%. Expanded Characters 20% The original 'W' was far to wide, but the 66% scaling reduced it to approx., looking right, I still had to tweak the letters though when painting the number plates. I put a load of chalk on the back of the print, then used it like carbon paper to transfer the letter/number edges to the number plate, then of course just paint. Of course I can't find the photo showing WSJ 455, but here's another one of mine CV 9998, top & bottom photo's are specific - the 2nd plate down was a 3rd party attempt - wrong - and the third one is the old plate from the 1960's. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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