The studio library is full of stacked up pieces which are finished but awaiting to be attached to larger assemblies for the NEB's bowling alley project. The number plates were carefully and skillfully painted to look like weathered copper. The scale of this project quickly becomes apparent as I looked over the numbers (this is only half of them). The assembled arches will cover fifty-two lanes and stretch almost four hundred feet. That's a whole lot of theme work!
Sign painting progress
Becke and Janessa are making great progress on NEB's pub signs between other projects.
Tipping the first arches vertical
Welding up a bunch of steel frames was the first order of the day. A sculpted bowling alley arch was then tilted upright and bolted to each side of the frame. Four of the forty arches are now sculpted. Removable wheels will make it easy to roll them around the shop as they get their coats of paint. The finished prototype arch was bolted to one of the frames. It's numbers were then fastened on, completing this one. The first completed arch will be kept handy as a reference and guide for the balance of the project. We also positioned two of the arches side by side for the first time. It is going to look so good when all fifty-two lanes of the bowling alley are complete!
