KC’s Car Care – Redux – ( and some big news )

From time to time, we may miss the mark a little. In this case, we had an idea that the car and bike should be the same scale. Once the bike was applied, the customer didn’t like the size of it.

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Sign Recreation: Ben & Jerrys

Technology is truly awesome! We were recently contacted by a retail store that had  their sign damaged beyond repair in a storm. The client had to have the same sign recreated – this was a hand carved Ice cream cone and logo. She decided to ship me the parts to inspect so I could recreate it.

The package arrived and yes it was beyond repair and covered in dirt and… mold.

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As I was putting the parts together to get measurements Rad, our Production Manager, walked by and said “Just 3D Scan It”.  I hadn’t thought of it but that sounded like a fun way to reproduce the sign.

So I put together the broken sign on the floor and ran our hand held Cubify Sense 3D scanner over the face of the old sign and it appeared on the screen in 3D model form. Using the clients supplied files I recreated the logo panel in Enroute Pro. I did some touch ups and scaling as well then  programmed the tooling and was cutting within an hour.791

220We carved the body of the sign from 15lb Precision Board HDU on our MultiCam 3000, – The Ice cream was cut from a 3″ thick block. The cone was cut from a 2″” thick block and the round sign panel was a 1″ thick piece. We then mirrored everything to make it a double sided sign.

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Once the body was on its way it was time to produce the logo panels. We made these from 1/2″ Black PVC with 1/2″ White PVC letters and the border is 1/8″ White PVC painted yellow.

We created pockets for the letters for easy registration when we glue them in place.

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  789We’ve added some magic sculpt for the chocolate chips to give it a little more dimension.  Looks like we’re ready to paint.

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Once primed with Coastal FSC-88 Primer we are ready for our color base coats. In this case we are using latex exterior paint. We’ve computer matched the colors from the original sign.

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842Once the base paint is on we can create the cone texture with two layers of a darker glaze then paint in the chocolate chips.  845

And here is the new (old) sign!

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Published with permission from KDF Custom Graphics. Source.

Rustic Sign – The Catskill Mountain Storehouse

 

We just had the pleasure of working with Tim Luby at the Catskill Mountain Storehouse  for their new retail location.

They wanted a simple sign that had a rustic “trail” feel. So we set out to get it done.

We cut it out of 18lb Precision Board HDU on our MultiCam 3000 CNC. We’ve cut two panels that we’ll glue together. We’ve applied a wood texture and left the letters of the sign raised.

745Once done cutting we glued the panels together then primed the sign with precision boards FSC-88 Primer. We then mixed up some latex paint and painted the brown wood color with several glazes of a darker brown.  The letters got their yellow paint.

Here we printed the clients logo to 3mm dibond on our Oce’ Arizona flatbed printer – then glued in place.

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Published with permission from KDF Custom Graphics. Source.

Long shot, medium view and closeup

As we put together each of our projects I design for three views. Long shots, medium views and closeups. In our large current project we were able to do it for every element (and there are many) of the park.

The long shot of the setting needs to grab people’s attention and hold their interest. The entire scene is carefully composed to draw visitors in. Background clutter is minimized as much as possible. I try to limit the angles of viewing to the best attainable. This is done by positioning the pathways. As we enter the park this view of the project is evident. The giant steel ride (yet to be installed) is framed by the background trees of the park. In the foreground is the operator’s booth and the horse and wagon which is to be used as a photo opportunity.

As guests approach they see the middle view. The sign is now readable but not the primary point of interest. The operator’s booth perched high on the rock with the stairways is now the focus. In the foreground a stream will tumble between the rocks. The barrel and cactus on each side work like parenthesis to frame the picture. Landscaping will complete the story.

As guests come a little closer they now can easily read the sign. The exquisite detail and character of the dimensional sculpture is now the focus.

Because we designed each element of the project, shaped the land and then positioned each piece we left nothing to chance. The result is everything works together to carefully and purposefully guide our visitors through the project.
-dan 

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