We’ve all seen the the fantastic job Chris Lanston did with his interprepation of Bruce’s Bakery in our recent contest. He received first place for his modeling efforts and drew much attention for the weathered, painted-on Coca Cola sign he added to the side of the structure.

As Chris recently commented on our Bruce’s Bakery: First Place article, he found a photo of a building that had a Coca Cola sign painted around its windows. To recreate this, Chris scanned the wall from the Bruce’s Bakery kit and using photo editing software, painted the sign onto the scanned wall image.

The typical technique I’ve seen used before is to print the finished image on regular paper and sand the back to make it very thin. Chris used a different method, however. Rather than use sanded paper, he printed his sign on tracing paper! He says he would have used decal paper, but he didn’t have any on hand.

In order to use the tracing paper in his printer, Chris taped it to a sheet of plain paper. He notes that you should use as little tracing paper as possible it will bunch up in the printer. He says he “varnished” the printed image on the tracing paper (I’m assuming with Dullcote) to seal it and then applied it with diluted white glue. As with any application of a painted-on sign, Chris pressed the tracing paper into the brick texture.

For those of you that might want to build another Bruce’s Bakery, or haven’t built one yet, you may want to give his sign and method a try! Be sure to thank Chris for his contribution.

Save and Print the Sign

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Design copyright Chris Langston.