| hey guys! im lookin to scratchbuild me a road sign in 1/72. any ideas? |
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Try out this website:
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/insdtdot/orgchart/cmd/cserve/standard/toc.htm
You can download pdf’s of construction details for pretty much any kind of sign you want. And traffic lights, railroad crossings, etc.
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/publications/traffic.htm
This website lets you download images of the sign faces. You can probably print a template at the right scale (not JUST 1/72) and you’ve got your signs!
Would love to see your results.
Jason
| i was thinking more along the lines of a simple WWII german front dio kinda sign, but thanks anyway! |
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rubaru that stuff is a gold mine thanks for posting.
No problem. It’s all free, too! Hope someone can make good use of it.
By the way, other parts of the site have details on pretty much anything related to public works construction, not just signs. Want to know how to build a bridge? There it is!
If you don’t know German, do an internet search for a language translator. Usually, you can select what language you want to translate from and to (ie. English to German). Type in what you want the sign to say, then have the website translate it. Copy that into a word processor document and find an appropriate font that will (closely) match the German font and the appropriate scale size (you may have to do a couple of test prints). Additionally, if there is an umlaut (the two dots over a vowel in the German language), or other specialty characters, you can usually find those somewhere deep in your word processor program. Once you have everything the way you want, print it off and glue it to the styrene. I have had great success with this technique multiple times. Hope this helps!