Thanks for taking the time to help me. I'm going to try this soon. I know I'll have more questions then.
Sex sells every time. Why do you think they have pretty ladies at auto shows. That way you can choose the best model....car that is.
Hi MisterBeasley, If you used a laser printer would you have to seal the decal? Is it the ink or the decal its self that is dissolving? Just asking since I don't know. I have to agree your signs look very good. Gary
I've heard that laser decals do not have to be sealed. However, you've got to use the right paper. There is laser decal paper and inkjet decal paper, and neither will work with the wrong printer. I can't say from experience, though. All I've got is an inkjet.
I don't know about laser, but inkjet absolutely needs to be sealed, otherwise, the ink we rewet and run when you wet it to apply to the structure or train. There are permanent fixatives that should be applied after the "ink" has thoroughly dried. One or two spray coats will do it. Grumbacher has one and I believe Krylon does, as well. Keep the sheet flat after using the fixative, otherwise, it will curl up.
I'm a little partial to the amazing leg room in the back seat of the new Pontiac :tb-ooh: They don't build em like that anymore!
Great selection, many thanks for sharing! The Pontiac advertising shows the advantages of a painting over a photograph: The car appears much bigger than it actually was! Not even my 58 Caddy is that big inside (though it is plenty big....) Cheers Dirk
Candy, the ads have been great! One doesn't realize just how many sexy ads have been produced over the years. I'm sure that this really doesn't do more than scratch the surface.
Thanks Roger and everyone. I've always had a fascination for the 50s. I love the clothes and the music and dancing was fun. The pin-ups were so beautiful and sexy! I love looking at the 50s cars at car shows. I guess it's only nature that I would model the 1950s. I'm modeling the Lehigh Valley... even if I fudge it just a little. I think I have more signs...ads; I will put them up later when I'm home. Maybe you can help me with getting my modeling 50s authentic. When I post a picture, everyone who lived the fifties please be a critic. :angel: I want to get it right. Candy
I enjoyed CandyStreet's ads. I remember seeing calendars in auto repair shops, garages, etc. in the late 1950s showing big heavy industrial wrechnes and tools, held by lady models with long legs. Some "period" cheesecake on my layout from various periods... I built an old-time railroad scene in the 1960s. In the BAGGAGE ROOM (not visible to proper customers!), I hung a calendar with a naughty pitcher. A magazine called Avant Garde ran a pictorial on French postcards of the turn-of-the-century. Or as they say in French, fin-de-siecle. I shot a Polaroid(r) copy to make the photo about 1/4 inch square and used it as the calendar pitcher. Not cheesecake but conjuring up some personal smiles... I made an amateur movie based on "Little Red Riding Hood" in the 1960s when I was at college. When I assembled a Heljan/Concor(and more recently Walthers) movie theater for my East Texas courthouse square town, I drew up a billboard as if my own little movie was a real Hollywood production and mounted it on the theater outside wall. (This picture shows the billboard for my space movie Winner's Moon and the marquee letters for Peril Trail the first movie I planned to make when I was 11 years old and never completed.) I have posted this photo nhumerous times and this is Candy's thread so I am just posting the link, not the picture. http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/Moviehs.JPG I remember when I was teenage around 1960 seeing a nightclub about two blocks from the Houston Union Depot that I fantasized as featuring dancing girls, being appreciated by old guys with monocles, wearing top hats and carrying canes. No windows and "no minors" so I could fantasize anything I could think of, with an imagination severly limited by lack of experience and perspective. But that "Bon Ton Club" would fit well in the amusement district of the Island Seaport I am modeling. I have gotten as far as Photoshopping a photo of one of my college girlfriends giving an ambiguous possibly come-hither-look...and possibly not...over her bare shoulders. Took it down to one-tenth postage-stamp size for a poster outside the club. The building itself, that I can do anytime...
