I found this site has some decal sets containing some not so common gas station signs. Since you can get them in a variety of scales, most any size is available …
There are literally hundreds of sets to look through. While the majority are for specific race cars, there are also many sets for gas station signs, McDonalds, Coke, Pepsi, cigarettes, it both old and new styles. It takes a while to get through them all, but you’ll find a lot of great sets to use on the layout nobody has done before !!!
I posted this in a thread about the GMR 2008 issue a few months ago, thought it might fit in with this topic too, so here goes…
After reading the Great Model Railroads 2008 issue in particular, I like the way Joe Mainz and his wife go around and take photos of Texas highway signs and have them printed to HO scale and they give a nice side article on Road Signs on page 53. This got me to thinking of doing the same thing with signs here in North Carolina, then I also started to think about me standing on the side of a busy highway with camera in hand and a tape measure to capture and ensure prototype accuracy. Then the thought of safety issues started to take hold and the idea of me on the side of the road did not seem like a great idea.
So a ran a few corsuary searches on the Internet and found some nice resources for getting ideas on signs, sign poles, sizes and shapes of signs and their correct placement in reference to distance from road side, etc…
So, here are a few links thought I would share from my 30 minutes of Internet research:
USA Traffic Signs - last time I checked this one the site was down! [%-)]
The images on these sites would have to be saved, then manipulated for correct scale sizing, and then printed on your own decal paper, a bit of work, but the price is right.
