Product Spotlight - Why Use Tiny Signs?
TERRY SMITH looks at this range of real-life signs.
This useful brand has seemed to be around for ever. I remember seeing the little packets of pub signs and railway orientated posters hanging on the walls of model shops even when I was young lad a very long time ago! The range accommodates modellers in O, OO, and N Scale.
Gaugemaster has owned the Tiny Signs brand for many years and they are still a relevant way of bringing buildings and structures to life. The period enamel advertisement signs look wonderful placed on railway station buildings and fencing, and you can still see this today at preserved railways such as the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.
The range also includes many station signs in different regional colours, even up to the sort of thing which would be used back in the BR Blue Diesel days, much of which are still in use in or around railway stations today. Travel posters were also seen on or near stations, advertising glamourous locations that could be reached by train.
Of course, if you have a public house on your layout then there are many pub signs to choose from in the packs that we offer - they might even match an establishment near you! The replica enamel advertisement signs were often seen adorning the front and sides of shops. Adding these high-quality printed signs just bring a little extra realism to your layout.
Another pair of popular Tiny Signs offerings are the packs of road signs. The steam era pack will cover you from any time from the 1920s up to the 70s, after which our Modern Road sign pack would take over. Of note - while both packs are supplied with plastic rodding which can be cut to length for the posts, the early signs also come with brass etched warning triangles that can be painted red and put above the signs.
In a world of digital cameras and home printing you might think that this product may have lost a bit of its market share, but this is happily for us not the case. If you think about it, it would be extremely hard to reproduce the clarity of this fine little images, then you would have your ink and photo-paper cost with a lot of wastage and of course your time. No, we have what you need right here in the Tiny Signs range - which are both high in quality and extremely affordable.
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