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Joe keeps calling our shop MONSTER Imagination. I guess he finally got to me.
The customer who we just did the parade float for a couple weeks ago has wanted me to come up with a new sign for him for a while. I've had a concept in mind for a while but I felt I had to warm him up a little for the outrageous idea that lived in my head.
Last night I finally scribbled some ideas together while sitting in the loveseat recliner while Janis & I watched TV. She kept glancing over and laughing... it WAS outrageous and it makes me laugh too!
While I was designing I kept in mind the project has to be relatively simple to build. I'll use scrap steel for the most part in order to keep the material costs down. This one is all about my labor and ideas and not much else.
I presented the sketch to Bill today as the new sign for his gravel pit and trucking business. He LOVED it! He wants it 10 feet tall.
I'll do the final colorized concept drawing tonight (back in the recliner) and present it for final approval tomorrow. I'll post a finished colorized version of the sketch tomorrow on this thread.
-almost grampa dan
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Dan..You have WAY too much talent for one guy!!!!
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Your crazy Dan...That looks like ALOT OF FUN, but who but a madman would actually show that to a customer ?
I think it it just fantastic that you can run with the ball like that and come up with such a cool idea. Your brave too, Dan, tackling a project like that. It's like your venturing out onto totally new ground, with not much to go on for a precident.
Alot of us would probably get nervous about building something like that, preferring to perhaps try one at home first to make sure we can really do it. That's what's great about you, all these wild ideas of yours always seem to come out looking good !
Your an inspiration, Dan.
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Wow, and you could even mount him on the roof of a steam train coming out of a book! (you DID make two when you did that one last month, didn't you )
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Danny.... I am here with Doug Downey As we checked out your design we both were speechless! Youare now according to Doug the Chip Foose of the sign Industry.
Please give your imagination a rest for at least half a day so mine will have a chance to hopefully catch up!
Keep on Keepin' on
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Geeze, Dan, you sure do create some fun projects. Your imagination exceeds the boundaries of everyone else. This will be the coolest sign project ever done. Dang, I wish I could weld.
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I'm having a blast with this one!!! I spent way too much time on the drawing especially for a sign that's already sold... but I'm happy at last.
The extra time was worthwhile as it gave me more opportunity to decide just how I was going to build this monster!
-almost grampa dan
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Budget concerns made the catepillar tracks not possible... but the thought did occur to me and I would have preferred it that way... I would also LOVE to have real hydraulics so this thing would MOVE!
Like everybody else here on this board I still have to work with pretty tight budgets sometimes.
This is one of those projects.
It's still going to be a fun project though. I start construction today!
-almost grampa dan
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What is the customers business? What do they do?
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THe customer owns a trucking and gravel pit business.
Dale
Its a combination of free hand sketching with an old fashioned pen on paper and freehand sketching with a digital drawing pad.
I did up four pages of quick sketches in my sketchbook... mostly bits and pieces of the drawings with continulal modifications and refinements.
Once I've pretty much covered the ideas I scan it into the computer and then assemble it in layers in Photoshop. With the transform tool I modify the layers, stretching, flipping, rotating the bits until things start to look like they should.
Then I add a new layer and trace a final drawing for presentation.
THe sketch at the top is the cut and pasted version with some cleanup. THe one towards the bottom is the final rendering. I spent about an hour in the sketch phase including the assembly and another one and a half hours doing up the finished version.
I could do a how-to on a new thread if folks were interested.
-almost grampa dan
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Not only would it be fun to see your how-to and the progress of this project or some other, but I personally would find it very helpful. I've got sketchs, but getting them to presentation level is so time consuming. I want to put in on parchment or something to look like a scroll you would deliver to a king. I think you did one dan with a wax seal...Is that correct?
-------------------- Phil Steffen, 29 Van Rensselaer St City of Saratoga Springs DPW Saratoga Springs NY 12866 Posts: 563 | From: beautiful Saratoga Springs NY | Registered: Aug 2001
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I just catch this thread, This really cool. You've got me interested in the sculpture and the digital process.. Super work! How great is it to have so much fun and get paid too.
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