Burlington, 6 inches high, 14 feet, 6 inches long Railway Express, 4 inches high, 10 feet long Agency, 4 inches high, 4 feet, 6 inches long C. B. & Q., 4 inches high, 2 feet, 4 inches long 990, 6 inches high, 1 foot, 6 inches long
letterboard and the narrow three-inch high stripes over the baggage doors as shown in Fig- ure 4.
Bottom Panels Three horizontal segments compose the bottom band: a top border of three lines, eight wide shaded rectangles, and six close- ly spaced lines at the bottom. The lines at the top and bottom are constructed as previously de- scribed. I produced the shaded lines by using the rectangle tool to draw a long narrow rectan- gle with the initial dimensions matching the wide line spacing from the photograph. Next, I gave the rectangle a linear gradient fill that decreases in density from top to bottom. CorelDRAW pro- vides two tools to adjust the gra- dient placement within the rect- angle. In the one color grayscale palette, the edge pad setting al- lows control of the starting and stopping dimension in the verti- cal plane. In the two-color RGB palette, two settings are available to adjust the gradient: edge pad and mid-point.
I created the panel density tests as described earlier using both RGB and Grayscale pal- ettes. The RGB density test pan- els appear in Figure 5.
Next I created a similar test panel for the grayscale palette, as shown in Figure 6.
I determined that grayscale was required to produce us- able printed images using my HP 8200 PhotoSmart printer because the fine lines separated showing traces of red and green using the RGB palette. While choosing black only for print- ing grayscale could eliminate
Figure 6 These were scanned, rescaled, and converted to vector format from N- scale artwork graciously provided to me by Charlie Vlk.
this problem, working in percent grayscale produced the optimal photograph match. You can set the gradient attri- butes in CorelDRAW by following these steps:
•Select Fountain Fill •Settings •-90º
•1 color •Edge Pad 5 •% Grayscale Palette •Assign % grayscale, e.g. from 90% black to 0% black (white)
The initial rectangle height was 0.5 inches; however, I achieved optimal results for gra- dient blend using a rectangle height of 0.40 inches. The line and rectangle patterns and dimen- sions are shown in Fig- ure 1. Graphic Speci- fications for Lines Comprising the Bottom Band.
I also broke the bot- tom bands into three panels to the right and left of the baggage doors, and between the baggage doors.
I scanned the font for car markings and converted them to a vector format that could be resized. The fill color is 100% black. The car markings on the photographs were measured and converted to HO scale using the dimensions shown in Figure 7.
Lettering Dimen- sions and Style I adjusted the panes lines and stripes to leave blank spaces for the letterboard, REA, CB&Q, and road number, Figure 7. I then placed the car markings in their proper location on the appropri- ate panel. I test-printed the file on regu- lar paper using a HP 8200 ink-
Center Panel Most of the car lett ering is placed on the center panel of the car. Cor- rect sizing is important because of the visual rati os referenced from the doors.
Numbers I wanted to do several cars, and thus printed many numbers on the sheet. This is also effi - cient because one goal is to use the enti re sheet of decal paper to eliminate waste.
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