SIGNALMAN
Commissioned by Rick and Marcia Reimers
Signalmen guided planes as they landed on aircraft carriers during WWII.
Commissioned by Rick and Marcia Reimers
Signalmen guided planes as they landed on aircraft carriers during WWII.
Our clients, Rick and Marcia Reimers, live in an Eddie Jones designed house here (they're neighbors of the Logans) and in Montana. The one up north has the one and only polished, stainless steel roof I've ever seen. The reconstructed section on the left is entirely clad in rusted steel. The living-kitchen new construction (and garage-guest house not pictured) are glass and stainless steel.
My red carpet moment was flying up with Eddie and Rick on his private jet (pinch me) to check it out.
I took a picture of their contractor, John Lentz, for scale and position.
I took a picture of their contractor, John Lentz, for scale and position.
Then we pasted (the low tech way) a photo in place to pitch the idea.
People were not sure where the front door was and this guy, complete with lights blazing, is intended to be the equivalent of a porch light. This is the closest thing to an old fashioned statue (as in the general on his horse) we've done. We worked off of this reference photo from Rick. I was worried about getting the goggles, lights and hands (well everything really) right. The fabric in the photo had a billowing-in-the-wind look.
The apparent cable feeding the lights is actually ¼ inch diameter copper pipe with 14 gauge wire inside. It was important to Rick that the bulbs be old fashioned incandescent although my first inclination was to go to with our new favorite LED's. We used clear appliance bulbs. Strength was also a big concern as it will be outside year round in the Montana wind and snow. We built a tube steel skeleton that goes from the base plate to his head welded to rebar hoops that go up and down inside his limbs and torso.
Our model was my son, Gaspar.
