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Treen, you are brill!!!
19-03-2008, 11:21 AM
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I've used mine for shortening the legs on my wooden stool! HANDY TOOL
   
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19-03-2008, 12:09 PM
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Reinforcing the weak spots
As I said earlier I thought it was important to make the handle bit reinforced. Like it or not the natural thing to do with something shaped like this is to grab it by the handle. I decided to run thin, flat pieces of MDF all the way along the underneath of the tribute. I used inch long fine tacks hammered through the MDF into the hard side of the board. I continued this across the underneath of the shape, so it didn’t wobble and covered the nail heads with self adhesive hoop and loop (Velcro) squares. You could now lift the tribute by the handle and it wouldn’t break.
Turn the board over and use your template to trace the details on to the oasis in the same way as the dartboard. I thought It was important to add a little 3 dimension with this tribute. I cut pieces of oasis and made a raised bridge and thingy (I don’t know what it’s called) at the bottom ...... you can see what I mean from the pics. If you add any bits like this I secure them with tiny spots of hot glue and impale them with bits of wooden dowel. You can just see the wooden dowel in the middle of the bridge. If you squeeze tones of hot glue on you won’t be able to push your flower heads through and it has more of a weakening effect than strengthening one. Once I was happy with the 3D extras I finished the edge with some ribbon as the sides would be visible once finished.
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19-03-2008, 04:44 PM
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Adding the flowers
As always I based up all the bits that needed to be sprayed black. There are some occasions where definite divisions between colours are not important and you can get away with spraying them without masking. I did this with the top of the handle bit and the definition on the bow.
Not using too much glue on your 3D added bits will allow you to keep your stem lengths long which will help to keep the small oasis pieces in place as you can push the flower stems through .... deep into the board underneath. The petals on the bridge bit were trimmed all over the surface to give it a smooth finish. This is a good tip to make things look neater, the flowers don’t suffer at all by being trimmed!
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19-03-2008, 04:47 PM
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Treen you're so clever.........you're fab!!!!
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19-03-2008, 08:20 PM
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NOT CLEVER!
I just have a method for everything. I learn from my mistakes and find a solution if I think something could be improved, made easier or could generate a healthier profit without compromising the finished design. In some ways not having any training has not stifled me into someone else's way of thinking. I have been told things by students, that have been taught certain methods at college, that have little or no substance ....... and it infuriates me. One classic example of this is something as simple as soaking oasis! More than one college trained student has exclaimed that I fix the dry oasis to the plastic container before I put it in water to soak up. Many are taught to soak the oasis first and then try to tape it into the plastic dish/tray. Pot tape is designed not to come unstuck, when it is adhered to itself, if immersed in water. If you try to handle a wet piece of foam, with wet hands and a plastic dish that will also be inevitably wet you are gonna "come unstuck" so to speak! It is nonsense to suggest that the underside of the oasis doesn't soak up water if it's flush with the dish! IT'S LIKE A SPONGE FOR GODS SAKE! I could step you through a coffin top or a posy in the same way as these tributes. It's not floral design ...... that takes a bit of something from within that I don't believe you can teach someone who hasn't "got IT"! These basic methods however cover arguments for many things and will set someone that does "have IT" on the road to finding the designer in them.
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19-03-2008, 10:58 PM
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Masking
Next job is to mask off the areas you’ve already sprayed to avoid any unwanted overspray. This is a great pic to demonstrate this ........ the method is explained in the dartboard step thru. You can also see clearly in this pic how one side of the flower is trimmed when butting it up to the other sections. The tiny details (the scrolls in this case) are easier to poke in after. Use your guide lines on the board to avoid these area ...... trim up the gap and spray just enough tiny heads ready to place in. The colour for this tribute was a bit of a mish mash ....... I used Brilliant Gold, Copper and October Brown ..... I tried to get the wood effect by mixing the colours and adding some highlights here and there. As you can see I leave a small gap in the basing to accommodate a small floral spray. I am not a big fan of huge sprays on based tributes and find that adding Le Bumps or bits of oasis when you only need a small finishing touch just adds on an unnecessary expense. I only ever add a spray/corsage if I feel it will enhance the overall design.
Allow the paint to dry before removing the cardboard masking. If you over soak the flowers and don’t let it have few minutes to dry between coats you may have a problem with it sticking ........ don’t forget the rule....... several fine coats are much better than a soaking.
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20-03-2008, 01:24 AM
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i fully agree over the soaking of oasis treen i've always taped in then soaked, despite what many a college tutor or boss had told me over the years, i find it the best way to work and also the safest option for not "coming unstuck"
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21-03-2008, 12:01 AM
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The finishing touch’s
Use your pre- sprayed buds to fill in the scroll detail. I used some fine wired cord to represent the strings ........ the raw ends were wired and held in place with hair pin wires so they didn’t move.
The little touch’s you add sometimes make all the difference but they must be in context. I used diamonte pins as a little detail where the wires ended ........ these represented the little screw heads you get on the real instrument. The hair on the bow was also made from the gold cord, wired and pinned into place. I thought a little cluster of cream roses was perfect to offer a touch of the floral, adding a little of the cord I’d used for the strings etc bought all the elements together. The side view pics gives a good idea of the effect given by adding the 3D bits. Hope you enjoyed it folks. What shall we do next? dbase17.jpg dbase18.jpg dbase19.jpg dbase20.jpg
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21-03-2008, 12:05 AM
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God Treen, you gotta help me. Whilst I have been away from college my delightful colleagues have elected me to make the ROVER BADGE as my unique funeral tribute (we each have to do a logo).
I don't quite know what Rover says about me, nor do I want to. Any tips, Treen? How do I make a Viking Long Boat? 
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