Blogs
Laura
Our painting crew always enjoys painting a more feminine name plaque. These days our workshops have more ladies in attendance and so I happily oblige. For Laura I picked a font called curlicues. I modified the letters to fit in with an elongated ‘L’. A suitable border for the plaque was designed in EnRoute.
Jeremy
There are certain tools I love to use in EnRoute to get the results we need. One is the outline or offset tool. On pretty much every name plaque I create (and there have been hundreds) I like to have a border around the lettering. I do it on most of our signs as well
Kenna’s name plaque
Kenna’s name plaque was next up. I decided on a simple oval with a casual, brush style lettering. Once the vectors were done I created a flat oval relief to start with. The flat oval relief was then modified by dooming up the centre portion. To add texture with a batman I imported the bitmap which sized automatically to the bounding box
Finishing off the dog
We often get comments about how hard it must be to do the detailed painting of our pieces. The truth is the process is actually very simple and quick. The key is to design it so it works that way. Painting the pieces in the correct order also minimizes the cutting we need to do.
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Revisiting Cap-it
A little more than four years ago I built some fun displays for a local company called Cap-it. The stands were used too hold their catalogues near the entrance to their stores. The step by step is posted here… Cap-it trucks posts Now they are launching a new advertising campaign featuring a British bulldog mascot. And so I got the call for a new display
Custom Support Fixtures
Did you know that Coastal Enterprises can fabricate custom support fixtures for bonded blocks of Precision Board? Yes, it’s true! Whether it’s for CNC machining, oven or autoclave curing, tool transportation, lay up tooling, final inspection, or anything in between,...
I’ll take a Wrap and a Giant Hot Dog Please
This project allowed us to meld two of our skills, vehicle wraps and 3D Sign Making, into one “unique” looking vehicle. Our client Callahan’s Hot Dogs in Norwood was in need of a new vehicle wrap to match their now famous Hot Dog Truck. So Nanette dove into the design then Dan called and asked… “Can you build a giant hot dog for the top of the van?”. Of course I said yes This is how we did it.
NANCY name plaque
As always it started with a quick rough sketch. I decided that some rivets in the corners would be cool. To make the type look old I used the transform tool to add jitter to the lettering. Then I added a border