Looking for someone who can 3D print this sign

[samusi01]

@Night Owl City

Nicely done. Given the original artwork was done as a vector, I imagine it'd be fairly straightforward to import that into Sketchup or Fusion (maybe even Blender: not familiar) and extrude those letters out 0.5mm to get ~3" thick lettering. Painting the 3d printed result would be the greatest challenge.

[Night Owl City]

I resized the letters to better fill the shape of the sign. Here is a vector PDF file of the sign without my fancy Photoshop effects. Feel free to try to turn it into a 3D print: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rAq8TfTBcOMIylPw2BB9s3ht81x0yC4G/view?usp=sharing

And here is an 1200 PPI image with the resized letters and the details overemphasized:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RAgp0OONgQAYiXNhbivwdI2MCIN2mL6-/view?usp=sharing

I will have access to a high-quality printer next week and am very curious to see how it prints. 

[OldEastRR]

I've been staring at Woolworth's facades this afternoon. I found the former Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC, site of the famous sit-in, is now a museum. As such, I'm guessing the sign was restored accurately.

I also found this straight on picture of a Woolworth's facade from the late 1920s in Findlay, Ohio.

I traced the letters from the Findlay photo in Adobe Illustrator. It didn't take all that long since there are only 8 distinct letters and they reuse parts (like F and L). I took the vector drawing into Photoshop and added the colors based on the Greensboro sign. The three stripes on the end appear to be silver, at least on the Bakersfield Woolworths. I also simulated the depth, reflection, and shadows in Photoshop.

I am a very quiet lurker here, so I don't have enough posts to upload the file to the gallery. But here is a 10.5x0.76cm image on Google Drive. I exported it at 1200 pixels/inch. Let me know if you need it another way: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a9A4J24-eKAKKHcYnCx51pCD2DqQRW8X/view?usp=sharing

OK, what do I do with the file? Have it printed out 3D? Or just run out on a inkjet?

[Night Owl City]

Inkjet, you’ll get better results for less effort. I shared the vector PDF if someone really wanted to try 3D printing it.

[peteski]

As I see it, I think that in N scale it would be an overkill to 3D print it, then having to carefully paint it just to get that tiny amount of relief which will likely not be readily visible by naked eye from a normal viewing distance. I guess maybe if the relief was greatly exaggerated, it would be easier to paint and also to notice when looking at it.  If this was my project, I would just print it flat on paper using a standard color printer.

If this was done for 0 scale, then 3D printing would make sense as the relief would be clearly noticeable.