Flat End Caps for making blunt end observation cars

I'll respond because I know the answer. No, not a Tomar product, hand-built (twice). This thread explains, starting with the "Day 21" posting at the top of the thread:

https://ogrforum.com/...7#120807590184026197

Hancock52 posted:

I'll respond because I know the answer. No, not a Tomar product, hand-built (twice). This thread explains, starting with the "Day 21" posting at the top of the thread:

https://ogrforum.com/...7#120807590184026197

Hi Hancock 52,

Sorry if I was a bit vague, but I was referring to the drumhead tail sign City of San Francisco.  It appears to be a photo negative of some sort.

Thanks,   Teddymich

teddymich posted:

Hi Hancock 52,

Sorry if I was a bit vague, but I was referring to the drumhead tail sign City of San Francisco.  It appears to be a photo negative of some sort.

Thanks,   Teddymich

I think what he did was copy a web graphic of the tail sign - assuming that we talking about the roughly inverted T-shaped one. If I am not mistaken the graphic is reproduced somewhere in that thread.

You can print things like this on inkjet transparent film or on semi-opaque paper and light them from behind. I think that part of the advice was to print a second sheet to go behind the print with everything but the lettering blacked out. That way you get the background light mostly visible in the lettering.

I am doing roughly the same thing. I've started with an image of a neon sign which I am going to put in an old K-Line square tail sign mount:

As far as I know this is not prototypical but I am working my way up to something more complicated.

Postscript: I don't see the graphic I was thinking of in that thread but this is what I was thinking of:

Also, I see that T. Albers got further than I did in researching the square sign although I believe it's for a different train: