Railway Crests

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:52 pm

ptlrcecil wrote:However I suspect the time taken o get familiar with the software is 2 1/2 years LOL.

more like 1/2 a year!

I decided to copy out a side drawing of a 43/HST power car in INTERCITY livery, it took me 3 months with an hour a day at it.......

......and i came back to it earlier this year, and re-did it all in an afternoon!

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:01 pm

It's been a while, but i have made a rough draft of the feathers now, and 'ere it is:

I need to work on them a lot more, but they have been a real pain to do, but what do you guys think, should i carry on, or leave it?

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:04 am

Definately carry on, it's looking good and it would be a shame to leave it half-finished!

My brother made the MVR emblem several years ago, not as fancy as a belted crest but I like it:

Never put it on any rolling stock though, just the website

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:24 pm

Finally finished the feathers, i think it looks OK like that, just need to decide on what to put in the middle, probably old style writing front of D&FGR

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:44 pm

How about the front veiw of one of you MSS locos with tracks coming towards the bottom of the crest (similar to how the 16mm Assc logo is) - but drawn and no colour, not a photo etc. I think that would look good.

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:51 pm

hmmm, i think this part is going to take the longest, whatever i do. Need to think it through a bit more so i have a slightly broader amount of ideas that i could do

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:45 pm

How about nothing? I deffinatley would not put the initials on there, you've allready got them once, and you don't really need them atall, the name is there initials aren't hard to work out.

Another thing that always puzzled me, why does everyone base their crests around the FR one?

DolwyddelanLightRail · Post by **DolwyddelanLightRail** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:57 pm

i followed the lines of the FR on cause i couldn't be bothered to try to make up my own, and i also wanted one simular in style to the FR one, as i like it

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:03 pm

You could try putting some regional symbols in the centre. This qas quite a common practice: the FfR, of course, has the Welsh dragon; the GWR had the symbols of London and Bristol; the LNER had St. George's cross with English rose and Scottish thistle. On on a smaler scale, the RHDR has the Kentish symbol, Invicta, while the Kirklees Light Railway has Yorkshire white roses and a Viking long-boat. I'm sure people can come up with plenty of other examples...

SillyBilly · Post by **SillyBilly** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:22 pm

MuzTrem wrote: the FfR, of course, has the Welsh dragon;

No it doesn't, the F&WHR crest has a dragon, the FR does not.

Merddin Emrys · Post by **Merddin Emrys** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:52 pm

I'm just using the FfR one as it is

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:55 pm

SillyBilly wrote:No it doesn't, the F&WHR crest has a dragon, the FR does not.

Pedantic...

You're right of course, I meant the F&WHR crest, should have been more specific!

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