Show us your "billboards"!

A few years ago, Bill Parisi took this picture of our layout. Notice the MTH billboard made by my good friend "Doc" from the forum. 

The frame is made from brass angle. The lights are HO street lamps with the bulbs shielded so they don't shine into the viewers eyes, yet fully illuminate the billboard. The billboard is Photo Shopped from a 1956 National Geographic ad. Note the train descriptions

Frank & John - Very nice!  Really adds to the scenes.

Art

The ones I  like are the ones that come with Road Champs and some Matchbox 1/43rd scale vehicles. I put them on roof tops and in the country.

Bill boards and signs add a lot to a scene.

The old layout, circa 1993-2003:

I love the PostWar billboards and they gave me a way too frame the scene.

Peter

Peter:

That’s a great way to display them.  How were they mounted? 

Bill“board”

Good thread, people!

Peter:

That’s a great way to display them.  How were they mounted? 

Bill“board”

I use this billboard on my Christmas Layout every year.  It appeared in December issue of OGR Magazine from my 2008 Christmas Layout.  This picture is my Lionel Southern Crescent Limited PS-4 with billboard on my layout for 2013.  Ken

Here is a site that has hundreds of billboards that you may be able to use....hope this helps some of you.  Enjoy!

Alan

Model Railroad Billboards...

Here are some more photos of the full size Riverview billboard at the Illinois Railway Museum.I had ad panels made for the inside of the streetcars.The IRM has them displayed in a few of the streetcars they run there.

Dan

My favorite from back when I was just starting out. I thought it was appropriate.

And then I graduated to create this billboard honoring 3 generations from Carl Dovis Rogers Sr (my grandpa, pictured at age 4, in 1896) to Carl Dovis Rogers III all worked for various railroads.

Here's a few I display.  They all mean something special to me.

Alan, thanks for the link.  I always wanted but could not locate the NAVY billboard sign for my layout.  Super!

Steve, Lady and Tex

During hot summer days, local law enforcement likes to park behind the town billboard "for the shade."  

- Mike

LOVE THIS!

Just a few post-war billboards.

From a past Token Build on the Scenery Sub-Forum...

Wow, Todd!  Those are really nice billboards!  Perfect for a trooper to hide behind on a radar trap.

Art

This is one my wife printed up in memory of my Dad who was a town justice for many years before he passed away. It was an elected position so this is basically a campaign billboard.

Nice billboards!  Here is mine.

Yahooo! Mountain Dew!

John, That is a fantastic NEC scene!  Thank you for sharing.

-Duncan

Berkshire Valley sign kit and a old "Old Gold" sign. Don

This one I made from a photo I took shortly before the sign was torn down.

K-line

MTH

Scott Smith

Nice Billboards everyone. Here are some on my layout. The first two were made by a really great friend of mine Jim D. The last one was a gift from Jim.

Here's mine:

Bill

A friend of mine, his son was killed at the age of 20 so I dedicated my open space land on the layout to him. I hand bent the tubing for lights and printed the signs on vinyl. A very special project for me. My other is a picture from a race book reproduced 4x and put together on foam core and set to create crowd w/ 3d bottom ad board. If you look close actually real faces in the crowd. Keep creating!!!