Also, this is going to be like a tricycle track for little ones. The stamp would mke it too bumpy. But the forms like you mentioned, filled with colored epoxy would have probably worked great.
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Wouldn't it be cool if you reversed the number and each 'block' was a different color. Sorry, not helpful.
There are 'toppings' for concrete that are pretty much forever. They are used to stencil on bricks and such. It was used here in town for a project that has been done for at least 5 years and looks like they just finished it. Not sure of the name but you would only have to do it once.
[ November 05, 2009, 04:37 PM: Message edited by: John Byrd ]
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I'd just free-hand each one, and use paving paint.
If it wears out after 5 years, just redo it.
You can slightly standardise aspects of the characters, so they're easier to draw, before you fill them in- like cutting some basic verticals with serifs etc out of corro.
However, a bold cooper/souvenir font would be easiest to hand-paint, IMHO, with no sharp external corners.
Cut a corro O and it can be the template to form C, G & Q as well, the L can be used to make the basis of an E, F, I, H and others etc.
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I would go with a "bouncy" fun style with no stencil at all and roll them on with a 3" roller if I could get away with it. If they needed a uniform font, then probably coro and spray.
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I would suggest coroplast stencils,...I use them to paint grass at the track and they hold up for a couple of years of resuse twice a year,.....any token grounds keeper could repaint them with a spray bomb,..and if you simplify the copy they wouldn't be that hard to cut,..just apply the vinyl and hand cut them,.....
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Nevman, I painted the floor of an outdoor fountain at a ball park. I don't remember the company name, but I think it was AQUA ---- somthing, I found them googling for Pool paint and they had many colors.
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OK, I have solved it: do it in graffitti-style! I'm sure you'd get plenty of takers to put each letter on a panel!
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