I’m at the point of stocking my HO 1925 mercantile window shelves. I’ve reduced and printed old labels and glueing onto tooth pick size cans and boxes. Does anyone have any other methods they have used.
All ideas welcome.
That seems like a really good idea! How about printing several labels directly on top of each other, then gluing to an whole tooth pick and cutting into separate cans after it is dry. It might make it a little less fiddly?
Pictures? Can labels in HO are a bit small for my aging eyes. I need something I can blow up. (Oh, sorry, that’s from the Tiger Tank thread, or the movie Dark Star.)
How about a whole sheet of can labels, and then a row of toothpicks glued together? After all, you’ll only see them from one side.
That method seems to be pretty much the most common nowadays - get an image of a can, move into photoediting program, clone many times, and print to scale.
I was able to use this for some glass front refrigerated display cases, excep I didn’t even need to wrap them around toothpicks - just create a sheet of bottle images which fit and glue behind the glass in the display case door…
In the old (pre color printer days), this’d have to be hand drawn artwork for most of the modeling public, and that never looked right (I think Heljan supplied such artwork for the ground floor store fronts in their model apartment buildings, and things like the bistros sure looked cartoonish)
Thanks for all the great ideas. I think I’ll incorporate a little of each and fill the shelves, darn LPB have small hands but they need to eat too.