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We are currently beginning a very challenging and fun project. We are building a pair of forty foot long Viking ships. They will be going into an indoor location with humidity (waterpark) in the middle east. The build is fairly complicated with the welded steel structural frame being built in six pieces (plus the mast and figurehead) to fit into thirty foot long galvanizing vats. That ensures no rusting of the frame. We then bolt the sections together to form half ships for our sculpting process. The sculpting will be done with fibreglass-reinforced-concrete - as per usual. The two halves of the ship will be test fitted here before we stuff them into shipping containers and send them off. The ships will be assembled by work crews there without our being on site.
My questions is about the sails for the two ships. We want the sails to be digitally printed and double sided. They measure about twenty feet wide by fifteen feet tall. They also won't be square. We will provide digital printing files as well as vector outlines of the sails. The sails will be fastened to the cross boom with eyelets.
We want to slip in steel or fibreglass rods every two feel vertically to billow the sail outwards. This means we need pockets or sleeves sewn into the printed fabric. We would prefer not to be able to see the rods.
I'm all ears in regard to recommended vendors or any ideas that might work.
Here's a pic of the four foot long half model which has been approved by the client.
-grampa dan
[ February 11, 2016, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: Dan Sawatzky ]
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Dan, I've been dealing with GH Imaging for my large format printing. They've done several billboard panels and quite a few street banners for me and have always been good to work with.
I've been dealing with Brandon Schultz BrandonS@ghimaging.com
800-678-4041
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