August 3rd, 2021

Hollywood Impact Studios was holding its 1st Annual Festival and needed some props and signs. The CAMP LAKE HUGHES sign was hand made from some 3ft long scrap boards. I printed out the lettering real size on my printer and taped everything together. The lettering was taped to the boards and letters traced with an exacto knife. I followed up with a chisel on the same outlines and then used a handheld router 1/8" deep to remove the inside of the letters. The dynamite boxes were 9"x13"x7" also made with scrap wood glued together. The sides were glued and nailed with small brad nails. A friend created a stencil for the HERCULES POWDER logo on a Cricket machine. I spray painted the black lettering and aged the wood with some scratches and dents and different colored stains and dirt. The dynamite was 1" wooden rod painted red with weed eater twine as fuses. The simulated metal bars were 1" square wood painted black and weathered with some yellow, red, brown and grey paint. The MINE SHAFT sign was designed on Carbide Create software and cut on our Shapeoko CNC machine. The Museum sign was also cut on the Shapeoko out of Birch. The CLOSED signs were designed by RickRob Studios and printed at Staples. I aged the paper with tea stains, ragged edges and some bullet holes.