Ok made some good progress today, I mostly worked on the "ford racing" sign, the top part is already done so I placed it on some 3/4" wood to draw the edges....
next I did some tests on a strip of plexiglass to see how the paint looks on them, one side of the plexiglass has been scuffed up with 220 grit to give it a bit of frost look. when the blue dried later that day I brought it inside and turned off the lights and used an LED flashlight behind it and it looked pretty good. when Im all done I will have LEDs all around the inter edge to light up the plexiglass, it should be pretty bright (i hope)
templete is done and ready to cut,
done using the plunging router....
Now i have to route a little shelf on the inter rectangles for the plexi glass to sit on, I had to do this for a while to get the depth just right.
once I got it right and all sanded down pretty well the plexiglass fit right in, it still has the blue coating on it right now, it is not painted yet. this will be glued in also at the end.
threw some holes in the corners and counter sunk them for the bolts.
last thing I did was put the first coat of spray paint on the plexiglass. im using testors model paint. after tests I find that two coats will be good to still look solid when the LEDs are not lit up but when they are lit up the light will still come through well.i will do some tests towards the end when everything is set up.
tonight I will finish the painting up then tomorrow i think im going to set up the back part a little more. I can do much on the sign until I buy a strip of LEDs.