I finished my Garage!

Spart43 · Post by **Spart43** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:47 pm

Well, I finally solved my problem of displaying the new logo in my yard to show my support of the Falcons. I searched the internet to try and find a suitable banner or flag to display, after weeks I said "Screw it, I am making my own".

Well it is finally finished. It looks great and the neighbor like it too.

Of course now I wish I had made it twice as big.....

Watch for pictures of my new Falcon cornhole set, I will be posting them soon.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:51 pm

Awesome work, Spart!

How long before Freak is begging the wife to hire you for a weekend?

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:52 pm

Looks awesome! I just finished painting the peek-a-boo on one of my basement walls a couple weeks ago to go with the "LT" on the opposite wall.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:04 pm

That might be the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. My future wife better let me get away with sh*t like that! haha

Columbus_Zak · Post by **Columbus_Zak** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:48 pm

Top man, that looks great.

Falcon Fanatic · Post by **Falcon Fanatic** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:03 pm

How did you make it? I'd love the TRADITIONAL Falcon head on our garage door!!

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:41 pm

Falcon Fanatic wrote:How did you make it? I'd love the TRADITIONAL Falcon head on our garage door!!

Stop being such a ninny. Embrace the present, you [I'll let TG fill this part in] bag!

That is friggin' awesome, Spart. You'll have to publish a "How to..." book for the rest of us!

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:33 am

That is "Falcon" Awesome!!!

Falcon Fanatic · Post by **Falcon Fanatic** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:40 am

Bleeding Orange wrote:
Falcon Fanatic wrote:How did you make it? I'd love the TRADITIONAL Falcon head on our garage door!!
Stop being such a ninny. Embrace the present, you [I'll let TG fill this part in] bag!

YOU are not invited to the B!G ASS camper on the 22nd!!!

Tech83 · Post by **Tech83** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:50 am

Very Nice.....................................................................................................................but gay.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:52 am

Well done, Spart!

Spart43 · Post by **Spart43** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:44 am

Bleeding Orange wrote:
Falcon Fanatic wrote:How did you make it? I'd love the TRADITIONAL Falcon head on our garage door!!
Stop being such a ninny. Embrace the present, you [I'll let TG fill this part in] bag!

That is friggin' awesome, Spart. You'll have to publish a "How to..." book for the rest of us!

You want me to give away all my secrets?

Well, I started with this graphic on the computer.

Then I used a shareware program called Mr. Poster to create a 4' by 4' poster of the graphic. I should have went with 6' x 6'. The program prints it out on 8.5" x 11" sheets of paper. Then just cut and tape them together to form the whole image.

Taped it up on my garage door and used a couple of big sheets of tracing/transfer paper. Ran a pen over the image to transfer it to the garage door. Then went over it with a sharpie to ensure the outline would stay as I painted and if it rained or anything else.

I got a bunch of those little foam brushes generally used for staining. I got the 1" size. Then just painted away. Took 3 coats to cover that green on my garage. I did the first coat and then my graphic artist wife, Lynn, did the other 2 coats. That was good because she is better at staying between the lines.

I spent maybe 5-6 hours doing the tracing and first coat and I think she had maybe 2-3 hours in for the remainder. She is a lot faster at the painting then I am.

She also designed my cornhole set. I was thinking of just unveiling that at the Temple game, but I guess I could post some pictures.

If any of you have seen Corey's set then you know the kind of designs Lynn is capable of. I will look for a picture of those and post them also.

Tech83 · Post by **Tech83** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:55 am

If you can create a PDF of the file, then you can email it to a local repro shop and they can print it on one sheet of paper. Saves all that tape.

That's how we did Nicholas's wall

and he clearly is not gay......

<It's a joke>

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:59 am

Spart43 wrote: I did the first coat and then my graphic artist wife, Lynn, did the other 2 coats. That was good because she is better at staying between the lines.

And this, my friend, is exactly where the plan falls apart for the rest of us.

Nice job. I love it.

Spart43 · Post by **Spart43** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:04 am

Tech83 wrote:If you can create a PDF of the file, then you can email it to a local repro shop and they can print it on one sheet of paper. Saves all that tape.

How much did they charge for that? It only cost me about 30 sheets of white printer paper and a little ink from my home printer and that was black ink.

The Mr. Poster program prints guide lines for the cutting and sequence numbers for taping together. Took about 20 minutes to cut and tape together.

I had thought about getting a printing company to do something like that, but I always worry about copyright stuff... I guess I would still have that problem with something I paint myself.