The View From Our Window
We are all ready to ship our entries south for the International Sign Association's Sign Expo. They are in ship shape and all wrapped up safe and sound.
I am looking forward to meeting (many for the first time) the great sign makers who are participating in this year's Sign Invitational. And, of course, I am looking forward to unwrapping our entries but I am even more excited to see what our 'competition' brings. It is going to be a great show!
The last piece for Trinidad that we are building in our shop is the train engine body. The chassis and running gear are being designed and built in California by our good friends at Hillcrest Shops. We've been busy in our studio as they work on their pieces down in California. The front and back of the train are done and the middle portion is ready start, pending final measurements from California. When we are both finished our work we'll load the engine body onto a trailer and haul it down for mating to the chassis. Then comes the test ride on their tracks before it gets crated up one last time for it's trip down to Trinidad. That's going to be a whole lot of fun!
In the summer of 2010 I met our client from Trinidad for the first time. We talked about building a project there. Three years later, in the summer of 2013, I did the first concept drawings for Scallywag Bay in Trinidad. It was a half-acre adventure golf at that point but it quickly grew to be an entire theme park covering five times the amount of land. In the last two years it's been both fun and exciting to build all of those imagined ideas into features for the park and then load them into shipping containers and send them off. This coming week I'll travel down the Caribbean to check on the onsite progress. I'm looking forward to it!
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