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| Author: | BGRMJames [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Ideas for aligning lettering on an outside braced boxcar? |
We have two Army boxcars. We're getting ready to letter them, and I'm looking for some ideas on how to align the letters across the braces. I was thinking of building some type of wooden frame/box for the stencils, and possibly clamping it to the braces. These are at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum, in Versailles, KY. Thanks James Attachment: USA_boxcars.jpg [ 170.3 KiB | Viewed 2825 times ] |
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| Author: | PJS [ Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:34 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for aligning lettering on an outside braced boxcar? | ||
Are you going to space the letters to avoid the braces? If so just tape on the stencil for each letter separately. Below is a picture of an outside braced automobile car lettered several years ago by Bob Kutella at IRM
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| Author: | Stationary Steam [ Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ideas for aligning lettering on an outside braced boxcar? |
Since a car shop would have many cars of a certain type to letter and would want all the cars looking identical, their approach would be to do as you state and make up a stencil that could do all the lettering at once. As you say, a box that has cutouts to avoid the ribs, and then attach the entire box stencil to the side. You could do it piecemeal but if you are off a little bit it will stick out, and it will bug you to no end. Besides, with two cars if your spacing is off a little bit that will stick out as well. Making a proper stencil would probably take a couple of hours at most. |
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