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The London Transport Museum also has a lot of advertising on their site including interior adverts.
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Years ago whilst making mock-ups of credit cards for advertising, we layered rub down transfer letters to give a similar effect to the one you're after. I think places like Hobbycraft still sell this type of thing. Being keen on technology though, I like the idea of having them 3D printed like Graham suggests. You'd still have to paint the letters though, that would be fiddly!
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Rich, it might be too late now but when stuck alongside one last week, I noticed that the wheel rims (just the very edge) are painted green.
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Good saves! Is Steve Flowers still making spares? It's been a while since I restored anything.
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Hello all, Following an enjoyable time today at the Cobham Bus Museum at the Brooklands site in Surrey, here's a link to my flickr set of 93 reference pictures that I took to share. The bus is an RM from the 60's but the details follow on to the later RML. Two very knowledgeable and interesting members of the staff took the time to answer all my questions and gave me a great tour of the bus. They even opened the engine cover and driver's door so I could get some pictures of those areas too. The museum is worth a visit and at just £10 entry, apart from the bus museum there's also the Brooklands motor racing museum too, oh, and a load of aircraft including a Wellington bomber! My photos can be found on the kellysands flickr photostream in a set called Routemaster bus. regards Kelly
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Jorgen, Indeed, if I charged the time spent at a commercial rate for the time I put in, then most people wouldn't be interested. The flickr link you posted is very good, thank you. I think in terms of reproducing period advertising, we'll be safe as modellers. After all we are in effect promoting the original idea! Mind you, I don't imagine that very many of the advertisers exist in their original form. Bruce, I think I'll try re-drawing some of those ads from the flickr link and also look for some late 70's ads on your behalf. I did re-create a pair of Kelly temps ads from 1979 yesterday. They are the ads that go on the front corners of the Routemaster. Apologies for not being able to find how to add the umlaut on your 'o'. I only know how to do that on a Mac, not the PC I'm using here.
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I do wonder why the makers of the 1:72 or HO/OO sets haven't jumped on this one. My own mission is to create a few options from each era at first or do them by commission. Finding good reference then the correct typefaces is a time consuming process, for me it's not enough to print from photographs of the real thing.
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To answer Krow113's question, yes, the kit does have advertising in it but they're not brilliant. in addition, the offside advert is the later style 'L' shape. I'm working on reproduction adverts at the moment, including the issue of licensing. There's quite a bit of photographic reference on the internet if you're planning on creating your own though and I'm sure that as an individual you'll be fine to copy them. I'm wanting to re-create them to sell to fellow modellers so I have to do it right. Kelly
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Cor! Good advertising find. I always forget about flickr, just thinking it's for photography alone. Best I go and take a look. Thanks Alex.
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64 Impala - first kit for a few years
wagoneer replied to wagoneer's topic in Work In Progress - Vehicles
Sernak, I warm the paint before application and in this weather (6 degrees outside) I also heat my workshop ready for painting then put the painted body somewhere warm to dry out. That helps reduce the orange peel. thorfinn, not too much, just some careful foiling of the details. Seriously considering a kerbside build too just to speed it up a bit. Progress is slow but I hope to update this weekend. -
Alex, looking brilliant all the way. The lighting is excellent too. Have you considered using bare metal foil as the wiring for lights? It does work. I'm still gathering advertising reference for my own build, when I've got something worth posting, I'll drop you a link rather than put it in your thread. Wag
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Excellent! I'll be following these two.
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Good save, your rust effects look very good and the whole staging makes it so much more than just a model car. If you get time, a tutorial on the way you create these effects would be brilliant.
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Well, I've been looking and commenting for a while now and have got my mojo back for building. Here's the beginning of the new build, an AMT Chevy Impala. This is a fairly basic kit, the front axle goes through the engine block! Still, I need an easy build to get me going. Body first: a quick coat of primer then wheel silver for the roof and Volkswagen orange over the rest. A bit rough but some sanding sorted that out. Next up some decoration on the roof: Next up, clear coat then some bare metal foil over all the trim. I'm a bit further ahead than this but I guess it pays to keep some progress in stock!
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Nice chopper Al. I fear you might need shares in Alclad with all that chrome work to do. On that front, I watched an interesting video on youtube about spraying Alclad. The chap had used a light grey, very well polished base colour. The Alclad was sprayed across the surface at about 30° to the horizontal plane of the car body (it was a streamliner land speed type thingy) and the finish was then buffed with some ordinary tissue. It looked rather good.
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Alex, I've not got any really good links just yet, just a few photographs from the 60s that I was looking at for reference. I'm a designer who creates artwork then makes high quality laser printed transfers for modellers. If you wanted some custom 'visit London' type adverts, I might be able to help. As I'm looking for someone else (Lindan on here, he's building a Routemaster too) if I find anything cool, I'll let you know anyway. By the way, your English is very good. Where are you? Kelly
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I think your advertising depends on whether you are depicting a current bus or one from another period. As for using logos like the Olympic one, it's just for you so don't worry about it and you're not promoting anything with it are you? I'm working on some adverts from the middle of the 60's at the moment for another Routemaster project. If you do some serious googling, there's reference for many periods to see online.
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With regards to Monogram and other US made car kits, they are a great basis for modification where parts from one might be combined with parts from another (engine/wheel swaps for instance) to create something unique. The lower price point of these kits makes it a much more viable option than say a Tamiya kit would as a kit can be sacrificed for a certain part. I've started and never finished quite a few in this way as my enthusiasm gets overtaken by my ability! JMC's history of the production of these kits was most interesting, thank you for that sir.
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What an amazing rendition. It's very hard to tell that it's built from a kit and your pictures help that illusion greatly.
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Gosh, blushing! I like Colin's idea about using actual reflective tape so might try some with a clear transfer over the top carrying a tint of yellow to get the reflective tape to be the right colour. Real numberplates have quite a bit of red in the yellow whereas the relfective tape is quite green by comparison. Honest!
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An Olfa compass cutter would also do the job for making a mask. The problem as always with the thin decal or even creating a mask is the fact the keyline you wish to achieve is rather thin so very careful alignment is the key. If it was me, I'd use a pair of dividers to measure the outer and inner diameters of the rim where the transfer/paint needs applying then do the maths to determine the size of an inner and outer mask. Vinyl is a great idea though as you can wet it carefully to reduce the tackiness whilst applying. That is how we apply vinyl graphics to real vehicles, it gives you a chance to move or peel off and reapply. Once the moisture has dried out, the vinyl provides a good clean edge. With the measurements, it's a few minutes work in Illustrator to create the circles ready to plot on a vinyl cutter if you went that route.
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If you don't have any luck, I can do you some artwork/transfers as a custom job. If you've got reference, it's even easier! I custom print water slide transfers using a high quality laser printer, so no messy fixing process.
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Good work! At least he'll keep you awake all night, so some valuable modelling time to be had! Mine got huge and annoying very quickly, make the most of the little bundle of fun.
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Keef, the idea of a resin body for mkII got me quivering! I learnt to drive in my Dad's 1600 Super, just wish I'd kept it...oh well. Best I get off googling for them now as I'd love a slot car version.
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^^oops, it's in the title. I can see the scale. Even more amazing!
