3d Sign for Gordon Sign for Great Western Bank

 

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Sometimes the size of a 3d sign has little to do with the amount

of work it takes to complete.  Gordon Sign in Denver Colorado

hired me to make this complex blade sign.  High Density Urethane,

EPS foam with fiberglass-bondo hardcoat, Lord adhesive, PPG paint…

Once they install this 35 lb. durable sign Ill post the pics!!!!

Thanks to Chris for the routed lettering.

Posted 13 years ago at 8:53 pm.

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foam sculpture model of 20″ tall sparkplug

 

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This is one of the smallest and coolest things Ive built. 

The 3 dimensional spark plug display is made up of many different materials.

I used a soup can for the cylinder to wrap the threads around

The lower half is wood, the threads are bondo, the bottom steel,

the upper white section is eps foam with bondo hardcoat,  the top black

section is high density urethane foam. Epoxy, Gorilla Glue, Elmers

wood glue. The list goes on!

Red7e commisioned me to make this award for a guest speaker. 

 

 

Posted 13 years, 1 month ago at 9:10 pm.

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foam sculpture t shirt launcher

 

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Here's one of our smaller foam prop sculptures at work!  Aircannons Inc. makes quality t shirt launches

that we disguise as Lowes products.  unique PROMOTION!!!  We use all types of materials.  Foam,

fiberglass mesh,  epoxy resin,  polyurea spray hard coat,  sign enamel, automotive paint….  Whatever it

takes to get it right.  Lightweight but durable.  The prop in the photo is one of many for Jake at

Aircannons Inc. It sees alot of use all over the USA.

Posted 13 years, 2 months ago at 12:40 pm.

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Hard coated foam sculpture for Colorado’s Air Cannons Inc!

 

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These are 2 of the recent foam sculptures we made for Air Cannons Inc.  They give us an aluminum barrel and

we give them back a cool marketing tool for their customer!  These are light weight and tough.  The impact

wrench is for their client Lowes. The guitar has wire strings and lots of other details.  The next step is Jake

puts the gun part on the barrel base and they are ready to shoot shirts and other promotional items into

crowds of fans!  They are a consistent customer and these are the smaller props we make.

Posted 13 years, 2 months ago at 6:43 pm.

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Giant 3D Ride Snowboard retail displays for Colorado Ski & Golf

 

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These 3d foam sculptures were made for Vail Resorts and Ride Snowboards.

The retail displays are made of aluminum, steel foam & urethane hardcoat.

The light boxes were fabbed by Brazz Specialties in Colorado.

We made a 20ft, 15ft and a 12ft version.  Sign Language in Denver applied the graphics.

Thanks everybody!

Posted 13 years, 3 months ago at 6:27 pm.

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Colorado Candy Co. Impact Confections Giant X Games Warhead sculpture

 

 

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This 6 ft tall acrylic see through container is filled to the rim w/ Warheads candies!!!  Impact Confections is

promoting an online contest to see who can guess how many are in the giant display.  Several hundreds of

pounds of Sour Candy!!!  We built this crazy trade show vessel for the X games booth where they will be

promoting their products.  Thanks Impact for all the crazy fun projects.

 

Posted 13 years, 3 months ago at 6:59 pm.

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3d duck sculptures for children’s parade

 

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We built these EPS foam sculptures for a parade and the props had to be light enough for

children to pull.  The props also had to be durable.   The foam sculptures have a urethane

hard coat.  Each section can disconnect from the other easily.  This 3 dimensional display

is one of the more light hearted projects we've built.   The guy in helmet just hopped off his

motorcycle.  We don't wear biker helmets at work!

 

Posted 13 years, 5 months ago at 6:56 pm.

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Tough teeth for 3d shark head sculpture at Denver Aquarium

 

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This head was made for the Downtown Denver Aquarium.  It sits on top of a donation box so it sees its fair

share of abuse.  The teeth are what break constantly.  Even though they had metal pins in them.

We removed the existing teeth, cut holes into the fiberglass gums, cut teeth from 1/4 inch aluminum

plate, sculpted them to be more teeth like but not dangerously sharp, epoxied the teeth back into the

gums, used nail polish to repaint the gums and lastly painted the teeth with porcelain bath tub paint.

Sometimes the most work goes into the smaller projects!

 

Posted 13 years, 6 months ago at 9:30 am.

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big 3d foam props for hard to clean stains!!!!!

 

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These retail product displays were made a few yrs. ago for OxyClean!

I just enlarged their products for a store front display.  The customer needed

large, durable lightweight props to suspend from fishing line.  No stain is

too tough for this spray bottle!

Posted 13 years, 7 months ago at 11:29 pm.

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Colorado State Patrol 3 dimensional billboard prop.

 

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Here it is! My last 2 weeks; cutting and piecing together wood,  welding steel braces and gluing vinyl images…

This was a great challenge and we didn't use the traditional foam sculpture approach.  Sometimes foam isn't

the way to to build a giant billboard prop.  This big prop was designed by  Amelie Company in Colorado and was

built for the Colorado State Patrol's ad campaign.   Specifically "Don't tailgate".  Thanks to Ted Mills for the smooth

crane installation !!!

 

Posted 13 years, 8 months ago at 8:13 pm.

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