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I did this on banner material (vinyl), airbrushed in urethane basecoat, and clearcoated with a waterbased UV clear- but it's a string stuff designed to strick really well to plasticky surfaces.
The billboard was 22 x 11 ft:
All up, it took about 30 hours including erection, and it paid well! It's attached with aluminium sailtrack, tek-screwed on.
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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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P.S. that should be "strong" and "stick", not string & strick... Gee, the pictures come up small on this monitor- blame the purple banner on the left!!! I did optimise them at about 10 cm wide, but they look half that.
I did have them bigger, but the uploader wouldn't upload them, even though tyhey were still under 60k.
In hindsight, the banner could have been bigger, but..'oh well' !
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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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Thanks Kel & Kev- I think I'm still about a decade behind your standard, Kev, but it's fun and it pays well! The locals want more- I'm now designing two historical photographic murals to go on some entrance gate walls.
I used a Badger Anthem/155 for all of it except the grey ring, which was brushed on.
The hardest part was hanging it up in the shed to lay it out & paint it- at 22 x 11 ft, it's higher & wider than the wall I usually use to work against!
This may show it better:
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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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Hi there Ian, Nice job mate, from what I can see the detail looks real nice. I did think it could of been larger on the billboard but still looks pretty big in size anyway.
well done, you betty keep that airbrush out and full of air.
love them (as Dale calls em) "chrome brushes"
cheers! Rod
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Rod, what sort of happened, was years ago I did some stuff on the same billboard- and it was 20 x 10 ft- I had to resheet it.
Eight or so years later, the mob who have it decided to replace the old wooden backing timbers with galv. steel C section, and they got a special price on some stuff that was 6.7 metres long- so they made the new face bigger.
Genius me didn't measure the new one as I still had the old measurements of when it was 6 x 3 metres- who'd have thought they'd have made it bigger???
Too late- so I had to do what I could after I bought the material- next time it'll have a smaller margin!
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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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Looks great Ian! I have a nice Iwata HP-CS, but have been using my Badger a lot lately. I've grown to learn that it's the artist and not the tool (for the most part) and that brush control is the key. You seem to have a sense of that brush control.
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Protec basecoat- we get it from the local Mitre-10 hardware store in Toowoomba- It was a made-up tint to match some venetian red I had. I had no hardener in it. It was around $70 I think for a litre.
Viponds Tautflex UV clear gloss- I think I sprayed it on, but you need a gasmask. (water washup)
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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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Ian, too bad you're down under, I like your stuff. It's amazing what materials are available where.Just for your eyes only, I tried to immigrate to Ozzyland in the 70's and they wouldn't take me without a viable trade.I liked the surf there.It's good too see the quality airbrush work coming from your area.
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Wow, this is an 'old' thread, to resurface Thanks Deb, and Darcy, I'm not sure I have a viable trade sometimes, either- maybe they'll kick me out!!!
There are some seriously good a'brushers around whose work I really admire- one day I hope to be as good, but in the meantime, I'm following some advice of Dan's and others, about knowing just exactly where to put detail, and where you can safely get away without so much of it, just a perception of it instead- that kind of leads to greater profitability.
It's all fun though!
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