Exhibition Stands

[Steve Lamb]

I sometimes have problems with seeing picture attachments, I can’t see what you have posted Steve at all.
I taken all my defences down to check if my computer is blocjking anything and it is not. Does anyone else have this problem?

Cheers

[Steve Lamb]

Steve

Now I can see it, nice work. Do you print all the panels yourself?
We have not done an expo for over a year, don’t push it at all, I know you can earn well but can be streesful at times with time frames.

I used to do alot of expo fitting years ago. Farnborough Air show was one of the biggies, the British Aerospace stand was worth over 3 mil and took 3 months to build. The graphics content was emense, took over three weeks to fit, 12 hours a day.
Straight after that show we ‘d go to Amsterdam for a week with 12 -14 hours a day fitting graphics there, alot of stands and some awkward clients. Had hardly any free time for the real fun stuff, knackered.

Cheers

[steve]

Thanks for that yes all our own work. Our main bag is worldwide Conference graphics we specialise in all things inside!! and the occasional vehicle and extrior sign- school signage is a good earner they usually go for top spec stugg ali signs and supports.
I will post a few other bits
feel free to visit my site http://www.signagraphic.com
regards
Steve Brear

[Robert Lambie]

excellent work guys! thanks for sharing.. got some more questionson these but will post later. gotta go do some work.. 😆

[steve]

We also do a great deal of lettering and logos in Polystyrene Flame retardant material we ofted cut up to 1830 high and100 thick painted vinyled or inkjet print faces trading under the mane of Polyshop its easy to apply and looks fantastic on a set shop stand or EXTERIOR FASCIA!
I attach a pic of how we do it

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[Simon Clayton]

Very Nice work Guys,

Know what you mean Lamby.. Did a few Farnborough’s myself. (Euro-fighter and CAA. To name a few)
Then off to Germany for the Toy fairs, great fun, good money but long hours.

Simon

[steve]

A BIGGER PIC OF 2003 CBI CONFERENCE SET ICCBirmingham Nov 03

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[Steve Lamb]

Thanks for the feedback.

Steve good stuff mate, ever used the high density foam you get from the states? Spandex do a version called signrock but its expensive and limited for size and thickness.
The American product, I used to work with it alot when I was livin in L.A. years ago, not sure if anyone sells it here. I don’t suppose it would be as cheap as what you use, easy to work with though, always see in Signcraft for carved signs you see.
I’ sure some of the American members could tell you more.

Oh one more thing Steve, tone down your file size when attaching files, very big. 😉

Cheers

[Bill Dewison]

Really like the exhibition stuff Steve, fantastic. Are all the signs and shapes cut from foam then painted/vinyled?

Cheers, Dewi

[John Singh]

Wow Steve that is one hell of big Hot wire machine you got there
What is the throat on that?

[Nicola McIntosh]

steve terrific work, very nice indeed! i love seeing good exhibition stands/displays.

lamby banner is fab! but how the hell did you get it there??

Nicola

[John Singh]

Steve:

Where do you get this flame retardent polystyrene from??

[Steve Lamb]

Simon

Yeah used to quite enjoy that really money was good your right. We used to stay in all the top hotels too, the boss didn’t care at the time he’d just cost it in the job. I rember the Eurofighter, quite enjoyable watching the pilots train up for the big event, probably why the fit took so long 🙂
even saw a military jumbo jet do a vertical climb, unbelievable.

niknaxpc
Well, I arranged 4 fellas on site, each held one end and we just…. 😉
We used a big cherry picker with just two blokes and a hat full of ball end bungees. The banner is a mesh and surprisingly light really. The size of it is 110ft x 14ft. Actually easier to install than it looks.

Cheers

[John Singh]

Lamby

Signrock is available over here, even under that name

Last time I used it was when I did 3d letters faced with mirror silver
Just a little problem with the edges, had to paint with a silver matt

Extremely light stuff so no worrys about weight.

Excellent banner job by the way

John

[Henry Barker]

Lamby,

Hartbrights signmakers in Manchester sell Precision board, from Coastal Enterprises in the US they have a container full of 8×4’s 15 and 18lb density, sells for about £350+ per sheet.

Corian Distributors Ltd sell Sign-Foam in the UK which is also priced at about the same.

I use a board here which is denser again very hard 50mm thick, and produced for prototype engineering, its made by Ciba and called Cibatool.

Spandex Signrock is expensive and very powdery I think only available in small sizes.

I also make alot of large polystyrene stuff for trade shows, and TV up here, made the letters “Seven” a couple od weeks back 3m high, and when Cosmopolitan launched here we made 2m high letters over 40ft in length. Luckily have a Cell plast factory on the same industrial park.

I would like to get into making large polystyrene figures and coating with polyurethane for outdoor use.

Had quite alot of pics on my site hope to have it back up again in a week or so.

[John Singh]

Crumbs Henry!!
Polystyrene covered in polyurethane

Is that possible?? How??

[Henry Barker]

You can spray it with the same stuff they make bedliners with, and then paint it, met a guy in the summer from Italy that makes giant stuff along those lines, looked really great, obviously got to be a product that doesn’t eat up the polystyrene, but makes it hard, and protects it from outdoor elements.

[John Singh]

Henry
I’m none the wiser
‘stuff’ they spray bedliners with???

I’ve missed something. I just sleep on a mattress!!
(I’m only a peasant after all!)

I’m sure its workable simply because you say so
but I’m still baffled

Is this ‘stuff’ toxic
Do you have to have special spraying conditions and stuff

Please enlighten this dim flaxen wick

John