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Thread: 2/3 scale Indian Straight Four.
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1st July 2016, 09:46 PM #1501Senior Member
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Repliconics, The Art of recycling.
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1st July 2016, 09:51 PM #1502
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2nd July 2016, 05:57 AM #1503
Straight to the point, and no the money!.
Like It.
I like it but there maybe royalties to be payed!.
Although The Benevolent Dictator may give me some latitude as we both like things to be shiny!.
I've done a bit more to the layout for of the Indian.
Adding some colour to give me the shading lines for when I transfer the image to the sign.
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I'm pretty happy with the way his looking.
The next step is to clean up the detail of the image and make a transfer sheet.
All that means is to redraw the image as an outline.
Cheers
Trev.
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2nd July 2016, 08:22 AM #1504GOLD MEMBER
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This is one I suggested to Trevor
"Repliconics - Perception can be Deceiving"
Regards
Charlie
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3rd July 2016, 01:27 PM #1505
I've drawn up the transfer sheet I'll use it to copy the Indian head onto the sign using carbon paper.
It's all a bit old school I know, but it's worked really well for me every time.
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The transfer sheet looks a lot like a stencil.
Once the image is on the sign it's as easy as painting by numbers!.
All you need to do is stay inside the lines.
Cheers
Trev.
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3rd July 2016, 05:56 PM #1506GOLD MEMBER
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Nice
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7th July 2016, 03:53 PM #1507
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8th July 2016, 05:05 PM #1508
Serendipity........
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8th July 2016, 05:37 PM #1509
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16th July 2016, 09:51 AM #1510Intermediate Member
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Truly amazing ingenuity and craftsmanship here. I'm in awe of your ability!
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28th July 2016, 06:16 AM #1511
If you think that what I'm posting here is in some way off topic, you'd probably be right!.
But since moving down to Tasmania I've found you need to modify your working time to allow for the weather.
After several attempts at painting the base colours for the Indian sign, I've finally learned unless you have a temperature controlled painting both your wasting your time.
That's not to say that you can't throw some paint around, but with the constant variations in temperature anything more than a primer is problematic!.
Of cause if I had my wielding gear out of storage there'd be no problem.
I'd be building the frame for the Brough and the weather would be of no consequence.
Footnote: I'll be making a trip to the storage locker in the next few weeks.
So in light of all that over the past weeks I've gone back to a digital format.
Although not motorcycle related I've worked up a poster from a scan of the cover of a race book from the 1938 Inter-Dominion.
Framed up it should look pretty good, and not something you see everyday.
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The file for the poster is 77.5MB 4412 x 6144 pixels and pretty much stretch's the windows paint programme to it's max.
It's good fun modifying images on paint, it's like a massive game of "Join The Dots".
I'm never very good at keeping track of time spent on the things I do.
But I know the poster took a little over two hundred hours to complete.
The other thing was it has some colour and not just a blueprint, which made for a pleasant change.
So lessons learned: Signwriting is something you do in summer if your living in Tasmania,
and if you have a nice big shed make sure you have the tools you need to take advantage of it!.
Cheers
Trev.
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28th July 2016, 09:19 AM #1512GOLD MEMBER
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Trev,
Now who would have thought you would be interested in Harness Racing
Great work
Charlie
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1st August 2016, 08:32 AM #1513
Sorry Trev no pictures of signs from me but I took these photo's earlier today.
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1st August 2016, 10:55 AM #1514
Thanks mate fantastic photos!.
You've just made me realise I need to give Husqvarna a lot more credit than I have in the past!.
Love the Indian.
But is that a "Showman's" I'm seeing in the background?.
You don't happen to have any photo's of it do you, please, tar and thankyou!.
Cheers
Trev.
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1st August 2016, 04:45 PM #1515
Glad you like the photo's Trev as soon as I saw the Indian I thought of you mate. In the first photo the man in the what apears to be a white T shirt is the Indian owner and the T shirt has a Indian logo on it
Yes it is a showmans engine I don't have any others and will not be seeing it until next year now. I believe it is a 6" scale and I can tell you it is immaculate I talk to the owner every time I see him at the shows that is the gent sitting behind it with the hat on. There was also a 4" showmans of a different model which I forgot to take pictures of.
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