My fears were confirmed that the molds made from the Californian 330
America will not be directly usable in making new badges. Mike, from Seaport
Mold, told me over the weekend that due to the shrinkage, an accurate cast
is not possible, but the photgraphs should help in creating a good copy.
He told me of a process where a rubber stamp could be made from "camera
ready" artwork, and a cast can be made from the rubber stamp.
I decided to try and create the artwork necessary in making this stamp,
or any other method that would need a good graphical picture of the 330
America badge. I decided to use Photoshop since it is the program I'm most
familiar with. I first sized the photograph of the badge Henry took off
his car to life size by lining up the ruler in the picture with the rulers
in Photoshop, then I began creating a clipping path of the badge. After
getting a good clipping path of the the lettering, I selected the path
and filled the selection with black. After many tweeks to the lettering,
I finally came up with a pretty good stencil. If only creating 3-D objects
were as easy to make!
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