I am working on a double sided 8X24 billboard.... here it is:
What do you think?
What are some "BIG" projects you guys are working on?
Barry
Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
got 25 trailors to do next week nothing much for this week.
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
Well, let's see - - - Adrienne's going to 'Organize' Yeah, that's right - that's the ticket.
Ha ha ha - like maybe next week. I'd hafta see this! Ha ha
Posted by Brad Farha (Member # 931) on :
A new miniature golf course. We're doing all the design/obstacles/signage. It was supposed to be a summer project, but contractors have turned it into a summer-fall-winter project.... which is ok with me, but the customer is a nervous wreck.
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Retro-fitting a 7' x 13' 2-sided light box on 40 ft. poles from a single flex-face to a 12 slot slide-in plexi panel shopping center sign.
(...Not taking calls for 2 weeks...)
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
No big jobs right now. Just a whole lot of small jobs.
I did just finish the new sandblasted and carved entrance signs for our towns new rose garden and new lake/park.
Lately its just been screen printed shirts, decals and the occasional truck lettering jobs.
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Our big project these days is the final design (and hopefully the start of construction soon) of our new house/shop and phase II of Giggle Ridge.
I am also deep into the design of three other good size projects.
Busy winter, but at a pace I can handle.
-dan
Posted by Jackson Smart (Member # 187) on :
Just starting a 30' x 8' mural. It goes inside a new dentist's office. It is a scene from Holland, 4 windmills on the left. canal in the middle and tulip fields and a couple having a picnic. Lots of FUN! Also working on a couple of smaller murals ...one is a painting of the harbor on an interpritive sign...the other is a lighthouse and the Pacific Ocean on a 6' circular saw blade from the old mill here in town. also doing a carved sandblasted foam sign, two sided, with a lot of gold. All in all..haven a fine time. Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Since I have been out of circulation for a while, it doesn't take much to seem big to me. A challenge of refurbishing a very old entrance sign, (we don't know the age), restoration of the older wood frame and refacing with new aluminum over the old wood face. It involves sanding, puttying, prime and painting the frame. Then the sign is very simple and has a methodist symbol such as a coat of arms, that I will handpaint in several colors. It is enjoyable and the customers have big hearts so it is b-i-g to me.
[ October 04, 2001: Message edited by: Deb Fowler ]
Posted by AdrienneMorgan (Member # 1046) on :
You better behave Mikey, or I'll tell 'Tiny Bookins' you are a very baaaad maaan!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
Hey Dan!
Excellent article on you and Giggle Ridge in this month's issue of Signs of the Times! When I heard you discuss G.R., I had no concept as to the size of the project. Wow!!
Posted by Rob Clark (Member # 787) on :
My 'Big' project at the moment is a huge warehouse showroom for 'Spanline, Home additions'
1 double sided roof top sign:20' x 7', and the frontage 40'x 10' & D/S Illuminated 9' x 5'.
Lovely you think......... yeh right, the whole job has been supplied by the Franchise owners and it's all vinyl!!!! EEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All cut on a 20" plotter, & tiled all over the place, bits of letters crammed into every available bit of space on the roll. Some of it is missing & heres the kicker, all in calendered vinyl, it's not going to last more than 2 years up here in the sub tropics.
I gave them a quote to signwrite the whole thing but the franchise owners have some sort of scam going I reckon.....no way.
Fearing that this could all come back on me I have done part of the job ( striping ) in 3m cast vinyl so I can point to it when the other starts to break down.
It's all fun aint it.............................
I'd love to post some pics but I have absolutely no idea how
Rob
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
(3) three 9'x12' Backdrops for church group
Posted by Ryan E Young (Member # 2325) on :
It may not be huge but it makes me come close to throwing up every time I work on it. I am painting a helmat for Dale Earnhardt Jr. I did a helmet for one of his crew and he helped me get my foot in the door. This could make me or break me! Cant wait to be done with it so my stomace can untie itself.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Here's a pic of my big project.
It's a hotel/office building going up in Manhattan.
I don't get to work on the easy parts you see in the photo.. oh no.. well, eventually I will but at first I get the area that's found between the two buildings (ground levels). There's an elliptical courtyard between those buildings where vehicles can pull in.. there's also a sloping glass wall that forms the entrances to both buildings, except not only are they sloped, they form an elliptical cone.. to make things even more fun, they formed a tunnel that goes through the walls at each end of the major axis of the elliptical courtyard, so vehicles can drive through.
To make things even more fun, on the shorter building at the top of the sloping elliptical glass wall, there's a glass skylight that first slopes down and away from the center of the ellipse shape, but then also slopes back upwards at one point where it ultimately intersects a straight wall.
Oh yeah... the top of the sloping glass elliptical wall also varies in height, meaning it too has a specific slope as if someone used a huge knife to slice the pointy tip right off the cone.
I worked on this building last year but the owner put it on hold cause he wanted to completely relocate a couple of the other buildings in the project.
I've been looking over the new drawings and luckily it doesnt seem like they've changed how this sloping/sliced, cut-through elliptical cone is laid out.. that's a good thing too, I had alot of it already drawn up in AutoCAD in true 3D.
In the building industry we give building and their odd features nicknames. This area was nicknamed "Satan's Toiletbowl".. in the architect's plan drawings it looks just like a giant toilet, and we know it's gonna be hell to figure out the geometry!
Posted by Brad Farha (Member # 931) on :
quote:Originally posted by PKing: (3) three 9'x12' Backdrops for church group
Good for you! I just did a 10'x32' backdrop for a missions conference last Saturday.
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
Haunted Happenings Salems halloween festival goes from Oct.1 - 31. Banners, signs, all kinds of little signs.
Posted by Carl Wood (Member # 1223) on :
American Flags for right now. . . .next week only 1 4x8, 2-sider; we'll see if the phone rings tomorrow - - - if not I'll continue working on the sound system on my new $400 Isuzu pickup truck - -installed 300 watts of sound today - - - it's already gittin better . . . . . .
