Six large sections of the NEB’s Fun World wall are currently squeezed into our shop. This frame of wall sections is receiving its final bits of glaze and final touchups to make it ready to soon move out of the shop along with a couple of others. Once that work is done, we can move them outside and bring in the last four sections of the wall to be sculpted and painted. The crew is making great progress. Over at the Hazelnut Inn, we have begun the tile work in the Under Hill Suite. It is fun to watch it all come together!
Back in action!
With the whole crew back in the shop after the holidays, we ran on all cylinders again and accomplished a bunch of projects. Keith kept himself busy cutting and measuring big steel in the metal shop for ten light standards we are beginning to fabricate for Vala’s Pumpkin Patch. He kept the FastCut CNC plasma busy cutting various bits and pieces he would need in the coming days. I worked up the first cutting file of the year to set the ShopSabre Router in motion as we routed both sides of a cute sign for a new ride at Vala’s Pumpkin Patch. In the shop, Matt led the team to sculpt some awesome wood grains in the heavy timbers of the next wall section for NEB’s Fun World. With the hard part of this panel now finished, we should be able to make even better progress tomorrow. The painters were busy doing the final glazes on one of the other frames. Jeremy and Tony got a real workout, cutting up eight hundred pieces of pencil rod and packing them into the storage rack. Our team kept busy and was in good spirits as they worked together to create magic! It is a great team!
Full speed ahead
It is full speed ahead with the painting in the Under Hill Suite of the Hazelnut Inn. Tony & our latest hire, Jeremy are busy laying on the first coat of colour. Both Tony & Jeremy are eminently qualified for this task, as they both have fine art degrees to their name. This is of course no ordinary ceiling and is much trickier to paint on account of all of the texture, undulations and endless roots that twist in every direction imaginable. The first primer coat of paint is the most challenging as they have to work the paint into every tiny crevice of the hand sculpted texture. The concrete sucks up the paint mercilessly and it has to be on thick but not run or drip. Each subsequent coat of colour goes a little faster than the previous. Glazes are faster yet and it won’t be long until it is time to begin the tile work. The big pile of boxes of ceramic tiles are sitting just outside the bathroom door, ready for that job to begin…
