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javeryh's Small-ish Bartop ["Jack Attack!"]
Jimbo:
That looks sweet :) Looking forward to seeing this finished... now stop making excuses and get off your a*** ;)
Arroyo's sketchup skills are clearly better than mine! :notworthy:
Arroyo:
Get’r done javery. :cheers:
javeryh:
Artwork has been ordered. Hope to wrap this up before the holidays! :cheers:
javeryh:
Alright... my prints came in a few days ago and yesterday I was able to get the marquee and CPO installed while I stayed home from work for the plumber (frozen pipes ugh). What's that? The marquee and CPO were already installed you say? Yeah about that...
I know I have problems but the more I stared at the marquee the more and more I disliked what I had done with the installation. As I think I mentioned already, in order for everything to fit, I centered the image on the marquee (the UFO + lettering) and did not center the lettering itself. Bad move. I thought the letters being off center would add something interesting to the design but I was wrong. There is a reason that marquees center the lettering (for the most part I'm sure there are examples out there like Tempest or whatever). So I had it reprinted and I recut it making sure the letters were centered in the frame. The UFO gets a little cut off but not by much and I think this is much more pleasing to the eye.
Here are the before and after shots (the after isn't lit but you get the idea):
Before
After
Next up was the CPO. Version 1.0 did not line up properly - I hated the white line separating the top and front panels and the art was a little crooked as you tell by the line running across the top edge. The worst part was that the buttons on the front of the CP were about 3/16" too high up so there would not be enough room to drill without hitting the top panel. Arroyo did an awesome job tweaking things for me (cleaned up the colors and lowered the 4 front panel buttons). Version 2.0 of the CPO went on very easy and it looks great. Here is the before and after:
Before
After:
I also have the vinyl side art, which I plan to install either one day after work this week or sometime on the weekend. I am a bit stuck though on what to do. The vinyl is oversized so that I can trim back to the edge of the cab with a razor. How can I line up the art perfectly? I have that white border running all the way around that is offset from the edge by 3/4" or so. This needs to be as close to uniform as possible but when I lay the art over the side panel I can't see the edges!
In order to solve this problem I cut a piece of plexiglas with my pattern bit and router to exactly match the side panel. Then I can lay the plexiglas on top of the art and get it perfect and then move the art + plexi to the side panel and try to line up the edges. The issues I'm having are (1) getting the vinyl art to "stick" underneath the plexi so that I can move the art and plexi as one piece to the side panel to line up (scotch tape?) and (2) the vinyl art is in between the plexi and the side panel so it is difficult to line up the edges exactly with the vinyl art in the way.
I'm not even sure I'm making sense. I've done side art before but I've never had to be so precise when laying it down. Is there a trick I'm missing? :cheers:
Mike A:
I liked the marquee better the other way. :dunno
Lining up the side art would be much easier without that white border line. If only someone would have suggested that....
All of that aside, I really like the artwork on your cab. Everything from the design to the colors is excellent.