Modeling Tip Question: Text 'carved' into stone.

One possibility might be to produce a mask and then etch in the lettering with solvent into Plastic.

Anyone got any good ideas on how to create the mask?

dave

Robert Heller wrote:

Etch the letters in brass using PCB etchant from Radio Shack and a Sharpie Marker or dry transfers for the mask.

One of those $8,000 laser cutters would probably do it very nicely.

"One of those $8,000 laser cutters would probably do it very nicely.

A couple more years an we can all have one.

Eric

Damn! You mention this idea right *after* Father's Day!

Absolutely no need for plastic or brass etching with custom masks or for $8000 laser cutters. Bar Mills offers "Billboard-in-a-Bag", a kit intended to make your own custom billboards but the key is that it contains 200 individual etched-brass letters ready to mount in any fashion you might care too. The best part is that its priced at around $18 at the LHS...a savings of $7980 over that laser cutter!

CNJ999

Before you discount the 2D approach, check out the following web site where 3D architectual details are done in 2D, in 1-to-1 scale.

In the film industry "carved" letters rarely are. Instead regular letters with proper shading are used as the human eye is a relatively easy to fool things. A good shaded letter can appear incised unless you reach out and touch it. It is also a lot cheaper than all the carving and quicker too.

cat

Dear Sir:

Go to your drafting supply store and buy a stencil-type lettering guide, or get one of the cheaper ones at the department store. Use something pointed to scribe the letters, with _several light strokes_. Add serifs by using a ruler.

Cordially yours, Gerard P.

Dear folks:

An alternative to the expensive Bar Mills letters for the applied metal type is gold-painted alphabet noodles...and you can make soup from the rest of 'em.

Cordially yours, Gerard P.

Dear folks:

An alternative to the expensive Bar Mills letters for the applied metal type is gold-painted alphabet noodles...and you can make soup from the rest of 'em.

Cordially yours, Gerard P.