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There is a quart of poster paint maximum in these four 8x4s ... $30? Add a day in the sun having fun and a $600+ paycheck ... this is my bread and butter!
They give me a can to copy ... that's what takes the time ... But the end result is effective when the passsing traffic is doing 30mph. Beats digit prints for price anyday!
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Fun job Jon! And you're right, as much as I am a digi-print guy, you can't beat paint. Just out of curiousity, how long would you expect a job like this to last?
Havin' fun,
Checkers
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they look more like 6 x 4s than 8 x 4s Jon- nice work though!
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That does look like fun. I've got a hand painted job coming up when I get back from LVegas. I'm doing it for a friend that has moved up to Ft. McMurray to work in the Oil Sands. She's a good little signwriter that has decided to become a heavy equipment operator and set herself up for retirement. It wont take long up there.
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Ian, these are at the Royal Hotel in Ruthven Street, but we also have a contract with Independent Distillers to do them at another six pubs and their bottle stores around Toowoomba.
Yes they are 6x4s ... just my mental coversion for the "up overs" benefit wasn't right. They don't know what an 1800x1200 is. An 8x4 doesn't take any longer to do.
Brian, these things last 3 to 6 months before the fluro colors start to fade depending on direct exposure to the sun. We either recoat the fluro, or just roll them out black and start again with a new "Special" depending on the clients requirements, price changes, new lines etc.
Pat, don't you have "pre-mix" booze in cans in USA? Very popular here with the younger drinkers, especially for night clubs and parties. Bourbon & Coke, Rum & Coke and Vodka Flavours. The range is enormous! The "Pulse" line is Vodka, Soda & Guarana with Raspberry, Blueberry or lime. Really just pure alcohol at 7 to 9% with a squirt of flavouring and colour!
These are done using 1" and 1/2" Hadyn Truck Brushes with a smaller quill for detail and lining on the cans.
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nice job jon. that blew me away when i heard that canada and the states dont have premix cans (i found this out years back) I think is another aussie invention as we are so layed back we cant be buggered mixing every drink heheheh. yep i'm a jim beam and cola in a can guy myself. You can even get the premixers in 1 litre and 600mm bottles.
cheers mate!!
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oh, Jon, I hate to seem pedantic, but the standard abbreviation for a litre is a small L, and millilitre is ml, not mL. (Think of distances, you don't write mM for millimetre, or kM, it's mm & km, cm & ml etc). You can have a Ml which is a Megalitre (about 250 thousand gallons)
You weren't using some of that stuff to wash your brushes out, now were you?
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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that work is excellent and exactly the type of stuff I like to do. Fun and profitable, that's the name of the game. I have a few new splashes to post,I've been busy, nice to see you are too Jon.
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