I have, with the help of Maffi, completed the paint work for this year on the great ship. I had thought about painting the name on the front panels by hand, but decided that I really do want them to look the same as they are usually seen together. I looked into Vinyl and found a super place in Abingdon who sent me an imposed image on the front of Bones - the name with a skull either side. The problem is it was 60pounds which included fitting. Maffi got his name bits on the front done at Walton on Thames for 24pounds... quite a difference.
I can't decide whether to spend the money, get them online, or just get my paint brush out and do it myself.
Perhaps my next project will be to learn to signwrite.
Or you could ask hunky Joe at Oxford Cruisers - I've seen some of his sign writing and it's excellent.Which is a minor miracle given how accident prone he is!
ReplyDeletebut is he expensive?!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea - but I can enquire...? And you could give him free publicity in your column?
ReplyDeleteI'll do you the 'cartoon' and you do the painting?
ReplyDeletewhat cartoon? can you do it as a stencil?
ReplyDeleteSixty pounds strikes me as pretty reasonable really!
ReplyDelete'Cartoon' is a full size drawing. You transfer this to the boat's side and then paint by numbers.
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