Walking through the shop these days feels a lot like being in the bottom of the grand canyon. The big pieces of the mountain fill the space and tower almost to the ceiling. The rockwork base coats are very colorful with oranges, pinks, purples and blues. All of that gets toned down with the rich, deep brown glazes. The painting crew made great progress today on all five pieces. Tomorrow the goal is to finish these pieces for on Thursday morning the crane arrives to load them for their journey up to the lake. Another mountain is ready to be assembled.
Blastin' barrel
It is great fun to design the cars for a new theme park ride but it is even more fun to see the design come to life. Today the first bits of the Blastin' Barrels ride arrived at the Cultus Lake Adventure Park. The park crew wasted no time unwrapping the first car to take a peek.
Tomorrow the last containers of cars and track arrives. It won't be long until it is all set up. We'll carefully measure the clearances so we can fabricate the operator's booth in the next week. It will be a few weeks before the ride electrics are all hooked up and testing begins. Our crew will undoubtably volunteer for the first rides.
Still working well after five years
It has been more than five years since we designed and created the board room for MultiCam Western Canada. It is in a non-descript warehouse in an industrial district far out of normal traffic. Still the project continues to work hard for the owner. Each time a prospective client visits the showroom they are blown away by what they see - a testament to the things that all the machines they sell are capable of. From time to time a member of the press hears of or visits the room as well and each time an article suddenly appears. This week it was the local paper. Here's the article.
The investment in the room was significant without a doubt but it has earned it's keep many times over and continues to do so, even after five years. That is good business.