After deciding on a color and finish for the steel radiator grille we discovered that our choice wouldn't work with the material so Steve dropped off another set of color samples - DuPont Alesta epoxy, for what it's worth - this time assured that we'd be able to get one of these paints on our metal. Closest we could find is a color called Sun Gold, a little sparkly for our taste but we really just need to get this over with. I asked if we could see a sample first - nope, there's a setup charge involved for the process. But Steve recommended I go by the Advanced Finishes Inc. plant and check out the "little sculpture" (Sun Gold on metal) in the showroom window. Little sculpture... I pictured a Statue of Liberty or maybe a palm tree, six inches high or so and surrounded by a bunch of other sprayed knick-knacks.
Awesome - it's a two foot by three foot wireframe portrait of the USS Reliant from Star Trek II with the company initials embedded in artistic locations. Combined with the Python stuff going on this is suddenly the geekiest week of the project.
...now I think the ship isn't the Reliant but one of the offshoot designs that was bundled in some pack of blueprints that was sold in the '70s... oh never mind.
Posted by chuqd at March 28, 2004 09:09 PM