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Last week this Milk Float was dropped in for lettering & striping, to be ready for Brisbane Royal Show, which is on later this week. They were supposed to bring it out in early June, but we all know what last minute things are like...
It's all in enamel. I masked & airbrushed the shading since we were in a rush, or else I'd have been more of a puritan and brush-blended it. The rest was all brushed, no masking, no tape etc.
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The front board above will later have a scene/pictorial painted in it- there wasn't time just now, so I've cut an oval piece of timber for that which can be screwed in place later on.
The repetitive scrolls/striping around the sides was an old design I saw on a cart years ago. The hardest part was psyching yourself up to begin. After that it was ok as long as you don't stop! Also you don't go upside down to do the top side, you stay right way up to stripe all four edges of each panel!
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Dang, I'm getting x's. I was getting excited for a minute ... love seeing your striping stuff. Hope they will be back up later. Gives me something to look forward to.
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Thank Goodness I can finally see it! Been driving me crazy with wonder all day. Your blended shades are to die for. What intricacy! Very impressive. What a nice traditional looking job. The best part is being able to see your love of the craft in it. Excellent work, Ian. love....jill
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Some of you flatter me, but thanks for the nice comments !
Edited to add that any of you could also probably do the same stuff if: 1. you only wanted to it (= drive) 2. you knew what to do (or more importantly, what not to do!) (= research) 3. you made a start (=motivation)
coupled with some practice and a bit of desperation, and maybe some lunacy too!
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True Sign Art, Ian!! Now what exactly is a Milk Float? looks like a small trailer pulled behind the Milk Truck?? and if so, Where's the Milk truck LOL!
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Most impressive bit of work I've seen in a while...really has a period "feel" your design and your skill with a brush made it possible...way to go.
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John, a Milk Float is a kind of milk cart- a horse drawn vehicle. I just photographed the sides & left the horsey bits out of the photo. There are more red fine line scrolls on the front, but they were hidden from view in the front photo at the top of this thread.
Jon- it's got Morris Cowley wheels. They used that kind of vehicle in Melbourne up till the 1970s doing milk deliveries. Its vintage is around world war 2 time- there's a fair bit of chrome on it, and over here, chrome wasn't in much use till the mid 1930s. Before that, shiny metal was nickel plated.
50 hours including hand-sewing 24" of leather around the shaft ends/fronts. I'd hate to quote on it too!
You climb in from the back. The maroon board with the oval & scrolls is the front top board. They're a funny looking vehicle, but were also very popular in England.
Edited to add these two photos which may help show it's appearance more clearly:
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Great work and so much detail, the pin striping is awsome. one thing that looks a little strange is the shadow in the ROSEHILL PARK seems it should be on the botom left not the right wounder if that was technic of the period work of that time.
such a small detail, but this work is surly over welming for the eye..much candy!!!! Great job!!
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The book, "The Art & Craft of Sign-writing Willam Sutherland ISBN 0-517-68218-4 a reprint of an OLD book, has some colour plates of this style. Looks odd, but obviously, was in use back in the day.
At the July '05 Mazeppa Meet,John Jordans Aussie Crew did the Liquor Store Sign, and this technique was used on it. Still looks odd, but then, that's it's charm!
Anyway, is there a specific name for this style??
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I'm generally not all that interested in striping (or cars and bikes etc) so I ignored this post for some time...but it kept popping back to the top with all of those "Ooooo's" and "Aaaaa's"...now I can see why.
Truly phenomenal work Ian!!
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What an excellent opportunity to practice.....with all that work your striping skills should be really honed!!!!! I need a job or two like that, but by the time I got to the end, there would be enough difference that I would be doing the first stuff over.
Nice Ian!
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Really fantastic. I shudder to think of what it would have looked like had you had it since it's original arrival date. I would probably have just gone into the closet and hung myself from terminal envy.
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