08-01-2012, 04:48 PM
Matt, when the artwork was being done for the decals, I based the lettering sizes on my own EG&E custom lettering. However, I failed to take into account the width of the strokes on both letters and numerals, and the material intended for use as the car-side reporting marks and numbers is, on smaller cars, a little too large for my tastes.
Here's a hopper which I did for my good friend Ed (Mister nutbar). He models the '50s, and I thought that the larger letters would look appropriate for that era. However, on seeing the semi-finished car, I wasn't too favourably impressed, and ended-up re-doing it with the smaller lettering which had originally been intended for the HO scale car ends, the same as that which I used on my own cars.
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The larger lettering looks not too bad on full-height house cars, but I think that it would probably look best on more modern cars which are generally larger over-all.
The choice however, is totally up to the individual, and I would certainly not criticise anyone for their preference. I don't recall that biL mentioned any particular cars which he hoped to use, either. I've made my choices based on what I like and will, when I finally get the rolling stock, be adding gondolas, covered hoppers and a boxcar.
Wayne
Here's a hopper which I did for my good friend Ed (Mister nutbar). He models the '50s, and I thought that the larger letters would look appropriate for that era. However, on seeing the semi-finished car, I wasn't too favourably impressed, and ended-up re-doing it with the smaller lettering which had originally been intended for the HO scale car ends, the same as that which I used on my own cars.
The larger lettering looks not too bad on full-height house cars, but I think that it would probably look best on more modern cars which are generally larger over-all.
The choice however, is totally up to the individual, and I would certainly not criticise anyone for their preference. I don't recall that biL mentioned any particular cars which he hoped to use, either. I've made my choices based on what I like and will, when I finally get the rolling stock, be adding gondolas, covered hoppers and a boxcar.
Wayne