There are countless mundane signs just about everywhere we look. While important, most are designed purely for function and not form. The NEB’s Fun World facade needed a washroom sign to direct people down a hallway to the facilities. Because every aspect of the facade is special we needed to design something that fits in with the rest of the custom signs. This toilet paper design works perfectly. Once we finish sculpting the surfaces around we’ll paint it up pretty.
Massive mud day
It was another massive sculpting day as we tackled the uppermost building facade section. Our initial goal was to do the wood and brickwork but with rapid progress early in the day, it was decided to go for the roof shingles as well. By quitting time this large section of the facade was sculpted and ready for paint next week. There’s only one more section along with three small pieces to sculpt on this project. The painters are also going full blast to add colour to everything. It is going to look fantastic when it is fully assembled at NEB’s Fun World in Oshawa, Ontario.
Exciting changes daily
Progress seems slow when we are fabricating the armatures for our larger pieces. This is especially true when we work on multiple pieces at once. We would weld up the structural steel and then the pencil rod and then slide it out the door to make room for the next piece. Because our painting crew was busy on the Hazelnut Inn our goal was to do all the structures for this very large project before we went on to the next stage. As each welded steel piece was finished we would pull it out of the shop to make room for the next. Now we are pulling those same giant armatures back into the shop for sculpting. The fresh frames start at one side of the shop and then are rotated through as they are sculpted, base-coated and finished. The finished pieces go back into the yard every few days and the grand shuffle begins anew. Despite the same amount of work being done, progress at this stage feels a whole lot faster as the daily changes are very visible. We are quickly counting down the weeks before this giant project heads down the road to NEB’s Fun World in Oshawa, Ontario.
