A little something for Independence Day
#1
06-28-2015, 05:09 PM
A little something for Independence Day
We've needed something to break up the big boring garden shed wall. Never quite figured out what I wanted, then with Independence Day approaching this popped to mind.
I googled up some clipart, scaled the image to a size that would work at 1/8th scale, and printed it out on 1/8" graph paper.
Transferred that to 1" squares on the wall, for the full scale sketch.
Started out with a couple coats of pure white, exterior semi-gloss paint. Just the normal house trim painting stuff. Still needs the second coat here.
Next day, cut out a bunch of stars on blue painters tape, and went to work with the blue.
So far, so good. Gave that a day to bake in the sun. It's a south facing wall, so it gets plenty of sun.
Red comes last. Had to do a bunch more layout over the white background. A good sash brush worked great.
My assistant has gotten bored by this point.
Almost there now. But the red needs 2 coats. A tiny little foam roller worked pretty fast on the second one.
Ready for inspection Sir! Bocephus seems to approve.
I googled up some clipart, scaled the image to a size that would work at 1/8th scale, and printed it out on 1/8" graph paper.
Transferred that to 1" squares on the wall, for the full scale sketch.
Started out with a couple coats of pure white, exterior semi-gloss paint. Just the normal house trim painting stuff. Still needs the second coat here.
Next day, cut out a bunch of stars on blue painters tape, and went to work with the blue.
So far, so good. Gave that a day to bake in the sun. It's a south facing wall, so it gets plenty of sun.
Red comes last. Had to do a bunch more layout over the white background. A good sash brush worked great.
My assistant has gotten bored by this point.
Almost there now. But the red needs 2 coats. A tiny little foam roller worked pretty fast on the second one.
Ready for inspection Sir! Bocephus seems to approve.
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07-01-2015, 11:39 PM
A few weeks back we had a flag retirement ceremony at a Scout campfire @ Corriganville. That flag was about 15 x 25' dimensions, took a while to cut the star field and top stripes out of it to burn. Sang vespers afterwards. Those boys were impressed! There is hope yet.
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07-02-2015, 02:14 AM
Because it's the proper way to dispose of a badly soiled, faded, or tattered flag.
The Scouts have a dedicated ceremony to retire a flag.
Though it's rare, it's how I get rid of any I come across that are in those conditions. I give it to the Scouts to retire.
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The Scouts have a dedicated ceremony to retire a flag.
Though it's rare, it's how I get rid of any I come across that are in those conditions. I give it to the Scouts to retire.
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