How to Make Paper Set Like Decals

I have several sheets of 1/35 street signs, danger warnings, propaganda, etc. from Dio-Art and Custom Dioramics.

Am not sure if these types of signs would have been painted directly onto the brick or stucco walls or mounted onto wood/metal bases or posted on bills like you see around walls of construction sites.

So, given that, ideas how to make the paper set onto the brick details like a decal would set.

It's called "decoupage (day-coo-pahge)". Back in my hippie days, lots of people used this technique to decorate things. Ask for decoupage supplies at a craft store.

I don't recall "decopauge" relaxing paper enough so it would appear the, in this case, a street sign would show as being painted directly onto brick. I always thought of it as more of a plastic coating in general.

Saw a demo on this at a model railroad club meeting. Sand the back side of the paper item to thin it as thin as possible, then apply it to the surface wetted with water. Set it with an overcoat of thinned Elmers glue - just a light coat. You can use an artist's brush to help settle it into the low spots while wet, if required.

Once it's dry, weather as you like.

If HGTV/DIY are any indication it's still popualr in some quarters.

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