Shon, this is corrugated!!!! 51 foot long sign painted on the Guard Rail at Watkins Glen International at the Start/Finish. We thought of all kinds of ways to do this. Steve Hughey came up with the idea of projecting the image. (thats Steve painting...........his whole body now has Carpel Tunnel). Doing this method took all of the vertical distortion out. Larry Orr of Orr Signs and I went to the track at 11:00 at night, set the projector on the track surface and laid the lines on the rail. Next day we found a sucker (Steve) to paint it. Larry and I were painting a 800 sq.ft. sign on asphalt down in turn 1. Looking straight on, it is fine........look at it at an aggle and your brain starts to go squiggley! Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Tony...whatever Steve got paid for that job....it wasn't enogh!!!! Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Hey Tony,
Excellent solution to a bugger of a job... no wonder you are world famous...
B/T/W... missed you Saturday... We ate your steak for you.
Have a great one!
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Si, he made up for it last week..........he took our money on the golf course!!!! Bruce, we will get together before the snow flies!!!! Maybe some golf and steak????
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
I Love thos ekinda jobs! I DO! You do some KILLER stuff Tony! I'll be a sucker for one of those! Count me in!
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
Tony, Since this is viewed from straight on and the corrugations are horizontal, you don't need to deal with the illusions of dropping the stroke on the risers like with vertical folds. Hey, if you ever come across another kit box like the one in the photo, I'd sure like it. Mine was once stolen and years ago we replaced it with one of those aluminum ones. I liked the old kit better.
Posted by shon lenzo (Member # 1364) on :
Hey- Thanks you guys!! I found out another way to do this- the job is 10 feet in the air, then goes up 8 feet, 12 feet long. In this case the corrugations are vertical. I lengthened the pattern by 13.5%, and folded it into the corrugation. This was taped at each straight line. I would have used the opaque, but it would have to be out in the street,15 feet up in the air- and the street is also running downhill. This is the old ace hardware logo with wings and a space shuttle/airplane. I am doing this and two other signs for $3K. -by the first. Thanks, -Shon the tired guy
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