Station Name Signs...

rkk01 · Post by **rkk01** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 2:44 pm

Could someone please point me in the direction of a tutorial / thread with some useful info on creating station name boards...?

Many thanks!

briyeo1950 · Post by **briyeo1950** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:53 pm

Are you wishing to model some station signs? if so what software will you be using? Or would cloning an existing sign and repainting the texture be what you are after?

rkk01 · Post by **rkk01** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 9:55 am

briyeo1950 wrote:Are you wishing to model some station signs? if so what software will you be using? Or would cloning an existing sign and repainting the texture be what you are after?

I don't know what is required either way! My guess is that cloning a suitable modern sign and putting a replacement skin on is the easiest solution...

bdy26 · Post by **bdy26** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:27 am

There's various signs in the library that you can reskin if you ask permission from the Authors.

B

briyeo1950 · Post by **briyeo1950** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 10:50 am

Ben is right, there are, I used these before and found them very useful.

http://www.uktrainsim.com/filelib-info. ... leid=27325

But if you want to try your hand at cloning signs or anything else, Mike Simpsons tutorial could help.

http://www.rstools.info/tutorials/Reski ... lWorks.pdf

What style of sign is it that you need?

rkk01 · Post by **rkk01** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:16 am

Thanks for the pointers.

I need some contemporary signs for existing and proposed stations on the Arriva Trains Wales network between Cardiff and Bridgend.

At some stage I also hope to back date my route to the steam / early diesel era - but that would be a long way off.

briyeo1950 · Post by **briyeo1950** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 11:53 am

Ok, so they are illuminated signs then like these?

DocklandsProject · Post by **DocklandsProject** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 2:06 pm

We could always bombard RSC with requests to have an editor within the route building tools to re-skin various custom signage for our routes and make it easy for everyone. Seems utterly ridiculous to leave something so obvious and useful out.

anthonye · Post by **anthonye** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 2:09 pm

DocklandsProject wrote:We could always bombard RSC with requests to have an editor within the route building tools to re-skin various custom signage for our routes and make it easy for everyone. Seems utterly ridiculous to leave something so obvious and useful out.

They said they would do that a couple of years ago when they were asked, but as usual nothing would happened......

Anthony

rkk01 · Post by **rkk01** » Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:40 pm

Please tell me that is a photo of Cardiff Central, not a model... !

Cardiff, obviously, would be like that.

Smaller stations, like Pontyclun, are a small, simple white sign with an ATW turquoise stripe along the bottom

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