12-04-2010, 03:20 PM
Thanks for the head's up, Pete! I do appreciate it!
My guess is that no matter what I would get for artwork, I would be shooting it up, "cleaning it up" and then reducing it to 200% of HO size. I have dealt with production artwork for years for such things as control panels, regulatory labels and the like, but I have never gone through the process of having model railroad decals produced, although I did generate several pieces of artwork for them a number of years ago (back in the late '70's, actually.)
My original artwork was set by hand, one letter at a time, at 400% and then reduced to 200% of final HO size, the size that had been requested by Donald B. Manlick, a custom decal producer back then. (I don't know if he's even still in business ... I haven't seen one of his ads in years!) This is one of the pieces of artwork I produced back then, the Herald for my Lehigh Susquehanna & Western ... I just never got around to having the decals made ... everything went into storage before I got around to it!
![[Image: LSWHerald-1.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Lehigh%20Susquehanna%20and%20Western/Original%20Hand%20Set%20Herald%20Artwork/LSWHerald-1.jpg)
If I can find a good "camera service" (Kinko's, Office Depot or some place capable of producing what I would call "camera-ready art,") I should be in great shape as far as sending Rail Graphics what they would need.
I'm hoping that this artwork deal happens ... the lettering on the N scale model the fellow on the Reading Modeler built looks pretty good! Plus, I would send my LS&W artwork in for sets of those at the same time!
BTW, I did invite him to visit us and consider becoming a regular here ... as I always do on other forums!
My guess is that no matter what I would get for artwork, I would be shooting it up, "cleaning it up" and then reducing it to 200% of HO size. I have dealt with production artwork for years for such things as control panels, regulatory labels and the like, but I have never gone through the process of having model railroad decals produced, although I did generate several pieces of artwork for them a number of years ago (back in the late '70's, actually.)
My original artwork was set by hand, one letter at a time, at 400% and then reduced to 200% of final HO size, the size that had been requested by Donald B. Manlick, a custom decal producer back then. (I don't know if he's even still in business ... I haven't seen one of his ads in years!) This is one of the pieces of artwork I produced back then, the Herald for my Lehigh Susquehanna & Western ... I just never got around to having the decals made ... everything went into storage before I got around to it!
If I can find a good "camera service" (Kinko's, Office Depot or some place capable of producing what I would call "camera-ready art,") I should be in great shape as far as sending Rail Graphics what they would need.
I'm hoping that this artwork deal happens ... the lettering on the N scale model the fellow on the Reading Modeler built looks pretty good! Plus, I would send my LS&W artwork in for sets of those at the same time!
BTW, I did invite him to visit us and consider becoming a regular here ... as I always do on other forums!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln