SIGNS TIMES

OF THE
It just wouldn't be Mainstreet without the signboards... Line up your signs using a Don't be frightened to add more than one sign to the front setsquare so that they are at right angles to the sides of the building. Little details of a particular shop, some establishments offered multiple like hitching rails and the water trough are made from scraps of balsa. services. One writer records going to a livery stable to get his hair cut, it was the only place in town that he could get it done! Incidentally this barber's pole is made from balsa dowel topped with a bead.

DRY GOODS

SALOON

MARSHALL BANK HARDWARE

LIVERY STABLE
J. A. OVERBAY

HOTEL
Try
TOBACCOS & CIGARS

Prickly ATTORNEY
Bears
AT LAW

PHOTOGRAPHER

ROOMS

SADDLER

Stoves
&

GENERAL STORE BATHS DRESS MAKING

Cutting & Fitting
Use a colour photocopier to reproduce these signs. Don't forget you can have them blown up or reduced to suit your buildings exactly. Mount them on thin card using contact adhesive and frame them in balsa strip.

Tinware UNDERTAKER FOUNDRY

i.Undercoat the window in matt black.

PAINTING WINDOWS

ii. Paint the top two thirds of the panes in sky blue to which a little black has been added.

iii. Paint the frame the desired colour and add a dab of unmixed sky blue to the top half of the panes.

iv. Lightly dry brush the frame with off-white and paint a dot of white in the corner of each pane to simulate a shine.