Last night it began to snow here in Buffalo, NY. And it's been snowing all day today so far. Which means my window for priming and varnishing outdoors has closed until next spring.
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| The view from my WFH desk today. |
Which means I can't get a coat of spray varnish on to the Nickel City Smoke Shop, and consequently can't glue the window panes into place (since I need to varnish first so the glass doesn't "frost"). It also means any furniture I order for this building likely won't get primed and painted until spring.
So that means that, with the signs, posters and ads I glued on over the weekend, the Nickel City Smoke Shop is as done as it's going to get this year.
I'm really proud of the sign over the window. I eyeballed sizing on the sign itself when I was making it in MSPaint, cut it out and put it up against a 20x40mm base I'd sprayed black - and barely had to do any trimming to make it fit right.
"Anaconda Malt Liquor" is a reference to the 2009 Blaxploitation spoof "Black Dynamite," in which the drink is a major plot point. I won't spoil it, but the scene of Black Dynamite and his companions decoding the hidden message in the label is a side-splitter.
While doing Google Image Searches for posters and ideas for signs and, admittedly, with an eye towards emphasizing a run-down seediness to the terrain, I stumbled across an ad that ran on Facebook for a strip club in California offering "Welfare Wednesdays," offering discounts to patrons who could show proof they were receiving government assistance. It was so low-brow, so tacky, I immediately saved the picture to my terrain folder.
And on the inside of the Smoke Shop, posters for "Up in Smoke" and "Nice Dreams" from Cheech and Chong.
I do still need to figure out something to put over the pegs from the awning that stick out on the inside.
Some really cool looking buildings Bill!
ReplyDeleteThank you Keith! They've been a pleasure to work on!
Deletewinter is here. i'm kinda jealous. all it is here is cold, about 45mins west of Philadelphia.
ReplyDeletei love the smoke shop. the graffiti and the posters give it so much character. i still need to print out my posters for my western buildings.
you need at least one cool band poster for the inside. like grateful dead or pink floyd, i dont know.
also that checkered floor looks amazing.
Welfare Wednesdays...lmao.
Don't be too jealous Tim...it's all melted off today under a torrent of miserable cold rain. There's more leaves (my neighbor's maple hadn't dropped its leaves before the snow hit) than snow in my garden now.
DeleteI think you're right, a grateful dead poster would be a really good fit.
The checkered floor is from a Sarissa PDF, I just printed it at my local Office Max. The pattern makes it a lot easier to cut straight lines when trimming it to fit!
The smoke shop looks amazing. Yeah, I am in similar straits here on spray priming buildings. I can usually find a short window on sunny days to open up the garage, set my figures on a box, and spray quickly, then dash back inside with them. It usually works. The only real frosting problems I've had is when it is HOT and humid. Cold and humid tends not to be as bad. For something like the building, though, I'd do a test figure or something and not risk all that effort...haha!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike. Sadly, I don't have a garage (we did have a detached garage, but a tree fell on it in 2009 and flattened it), and the porch and driveway are probably just going to be wet until Spring. I'll set things aside as I finish them, and come probably April I'll mass-varnish everything.
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