Welcome to the Tiki Central 2.0 Beta. Read the announcement
Tiki Central logo
Celebrating classic and modern Polynesian Pop

Tiki Central / Other Crafts

jungle cruise ride sign

Pages: 1 18 replies

G
gabemaita posted on 10/07/2014

Been wanting a replica of this sign for years and could never find one like it. so i decided to try my hand.


E
ErichTroudt posted on 10/07/2014

That's pretty damn close to the original. Good Job man!!

HW
Holler Waller posted on 10/07/2014

How Fun - Love it

J
jimsflies posted on 10/07/2014

That's awesome! Is it all wood?

SF
Slacks Ferret posted on 10/07/2014

Well done!

M
MadDogMike posted on 10/07/2014

Very nice!

L
LoriLovesTiki posted on 10/07/2014

Nicely done!

G
gabemaita posted on 10/08/2014

Carved extruded foam. Hardcoated and painted

S
SandraFremgen posted on 10/08/2014

good job!

D
danlovestikis posted on 10/10/2014

Wow, that's great. Wendy

E
EPCOTExplorer posted on 10/10/2014

LOVE this!

M
MadDogMike posted on 10/10/2014

Gabe, what do you use for hardcoat?

G
gabemaita posted on 10/11/2014

For this i used exterior latex primer wit a very little bit of powdered plaster mixed in. Im going to try to build the animatronic tiki poles frome the tiki room, but this time i want to try to use a liquid resin hard coat. Im just still researching it. there is also a concept drawing of Trader Sams Grog Grotto at WDW, showing a tentacle come throug a port hole holding a bottle of rum, that my boys really want me to try. just trying to figure out how to do the suction cups. really dont want to try to carve each of them individualy. the latex and plaster gave a really good surface with out to much build up. I got hte idea from several haloween websites, they call it monster mud, made out of premixed drywall mud and latex paint. i used powdered plaster, to keep the bulk down. i wanted a semi hard coat without the build up. my mix ratio was like 8 to 1 or 10 to 1, paint to plaster.

G
gabemaita posted on 10/11/2014

The spears were not hard coated, just exterior latex primer. it just didnt fill in the imperfections and tool marks in the foam.

G
gabemaita posted on 10/11/2014

Thank you all for the compliments, its nice to find people who dont think im a weirdo for doing this kind of stuff.

I
indyaz@cox.net posted on 01/17/2015

Thats awsome, do you have a step by step or tutorial on how you did it??

PP
Pele Paul posted on 03/04/2015

OMG thats incredible!!! I need one of those myself!!!!!!

G
gabemaita posted on 03/18/2015

no step by step, sorry. it was just kind of one of thoes "remove anything that dosent look like the sign" things. just started with the shield. cut the basic shape with the band saw and coping saw. then used sureform tool to shape it. the mask was a fight with myself over mking it perfect. id get it about right, but not quite, and start all over again.in the end i had to let my boys tell me when it was looking good. i would always find flaws so id call out the teenagers and let them look it over and compare it to the source photos. they told me when it was done. going to start on anamatronic tiki room poles soon. ill try to document thoes alot better. both my boys are working toward engineering degrees in hopes of working in the theme park industry (DISNEY IMAGINEERS), on at UCSD and one at a magnet high school with a killer engineering program. they are working out the anamatronics. the current project is a tentacle coming through a port hole that we saw on some concept art for trader sams.

GZ
gold zephyr posted on 04/17/2015

Congrats it looks authentic!

Pages: 1 18 replies