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Solebar Plate and Markings Decals
For Railway-Owned Wagons
This page describes my current range of decals for the plates and other markings commonly found on the solebars of railway wagons. A wide variety of different plates and markings are available in a variety of scales. This page provides decals for wagons owned by the railway companies themselves, from the grouping era to British Railways; other pages provide similar decals for private owner wagons. A small selection of the available plates and markings is illustrated below, to whet your appetite.
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The "© Aardstorm Models" watermark visible in the enlarged versions does not appear on the finished decals, it is there to discourage people from printing my decal patterns for themselves.
You will be able to put together a customised set of decals for up to 12 pairs of plates or markings for a price of £9.50. This should be sufficient for several wagons, just how many depends on how many decals each wagon uses. If you require more, you can add further pairs of decals to your set for £0.75 each. You will be able to configure the set of decals for common characteristics such as solebar colour and solebar height, and of course scale. You can also configure each pair of decals for plate colour, weathering, and replace elements of text such as numbers, dates and place names. Certain plates and markings also have additional configurable characteristics.
For each plate or marking you select and configure, you will receive a pair of decals (one for each side of the wagon) multiplied by the quantity you specify, plus at least one spare. Where a marking is direction sensitive, such as the arrow decals above, and you need a different direction on each side of the wagon, you will be have to order a pair of each direction.
If you require decals for a plate or marking that is not covered by my standard range, even when configured with alternative text etc., and you can provide an image or specification of what you require, I will be glad to add what you require to my range – please contact me with full details.
Configure Your Decals
To order some of my decals for plates and markings you will need to select a base type, then configure it to your required specification, select the quantity you require and add it to your set. Once you've completed your set of decals, you can then add the set to your basket.
The range of available plate and markings decals is large, so has been divided into groups of related decals, such as numberplates, builder's plates, specific types of markings, etc. Each group has its own page that you can use to select the base type you require and it. When you return to this page you can configure the decal you've selected with appropriate characteristics, and then add it to your set.
Certain characteristics, such as scale, solebar height and colour, apply to all of the decals in your set, and can be set below.
To keep the number of configuration option values down, while still covering the wide range of scales and retaining precision in the larger ones, the configurable dimensions are specified in scale inches, rather than model mm. A calculator and look-up table to help convert scale inches into model dimensions (or vice versa) is available here (opens in new browser tab/window).