chaz Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Hello, Can anybody help me with the sizes of roadside billboard hoardings? I would like to add one or two to my Dock Green layout. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/58132-dock-green/ If you know what size(s) hoardings are or were in the 50's/60's could you please post? or if you know where the info' can be got a link would be helpful I am thinking of big ones large enough to carry three posters (very useful in 7mm as view blockers) failing that I have a long tape measure.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R A Watson Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Stubby47 did some on Black Country Blues thread, I seem to remember quite a lot of info on there amongst the banter. May be worth a query. Wally Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wamwig Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 This topic should help http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/62967-the-size-of-oo-bill-boards-and-posters/ WW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Stubby47 did some on Black Country Blues thread, I seem to remember quite a lot of info on there amongst the banter. May be worth a query. Wally Thanks, Wally, will check it out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 This topic should help http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/62967-the-size-of-oo-bill-boards-and-posters/ WW Thanks for that WW. Will follow up your link ASAP. Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 14, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2013 Guilty as charged : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/66971-black-country-blues-stubby-does-hoardings-and-now-electricity-poles-pg5/ Please ignore all references to toilets... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 Guilty as charged : http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/66971-black-country-blues-stubby-does-hoardings-and-now-electricity-poles-pg5/ Please ignore all references to toilets... So much help, so quickly, Thanks a lot. Will follow up this link ASAP (but not tonight, too tired after a heavy afternoon spraying brickwork sooty.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 I must be getting old..... Following some of the (very useful) links posted above I notice some postings of my own last year. DOH..... Anyway I've saved the important sizes and will make up at least one big hoarding to go on one of the bridges in Dock Green. I will build the billboard using wood section for the framing and support timbers and thin ply' for the board face. I will post details in my Dock Green topic when I have it underway (could be a while - but I hope before November, when DG goes to Warley). http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/58132-dock-green/page-32 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted June 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2013 Chaz Some images as promised in pm Hoarding is 70mm high by 140mm wide Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold westerhamstation Posted June 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2013 This is a good site .http://www.vinyl-ban...oster_sizes.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 Chaz Some images as promised in pm Hoarding is 70mm high by 140mm wide Chris Thanks for the photos (very much the sort of thing I have in mind) and for the size which confirms the details from other sources. Information from one of the website links posted above gave me.... "48 sheet 6096mm x 3048mm (landscape format)" Dividing those figures by 43.5 gives exactly - 140 x 70mm So your billboard would carry one 48 sheet poster or, as you have done, three 16 sheet portrait format posters. The only thing missing from your billboard is the agency badge, which is usually in the middle of the bottom rail of the "frame". Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 This is a good site .http://www.vinyl-ban...oster_sizes.htm Yes, it is, thanks. A 96 sheet billboard would be 280mm (nearly a foot!) wide in 7mm. That's big. Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Gilbert Posted June 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 15, 2013 Thanks for the photos (very much the sort of thing I have in mind) and for the size which confirms the details from other sources. Information from one of the website links posted above gave me.... "48 sheet 6096mm x 3048mm (landscape format)" Dividing those figures by 43.5 gives exactly - 140 x 70mm So your billboard would carry one 48 sheet poster or, as you have done, three 16 sheet portrait format posters. The only thing missing from your billboard is the agency badge, which is usually in the middle of the bottom rail of the "frame". Chaz Anybody got any info on these agency badges? Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 15, 2013 Author Share Posted June 15, 2013 Anybody got any info on these agency badges? Chris Sorry, more of a name label than a badge. Find a hoarding near you and it will almost certainly have one. I'm walking past one at the bottom of my road tomorrow lunchtime, I will try to remember to get a snap for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted June 16, 2013 Author Share Posted June 16, 2013 Agency names on hoardings... Took these this morning in Eastleigh. Obviously the companies are contemporary and you will have to search in pictures for suitable names to match whatever era you are modelling. Also a couple of pictures (severe crops to avoid copyright problems) showing the sort of timber structures that support the billboards. Interesting that the one above appears to be tied in with the fence posts.... I love the pierced screens between the boards which are, I assume, wholly decorative. Chaz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.