Painting a safe/ graphic

[Sefuller5741]

I have a recently acquired Champion Safe that needs some restoration. I'd like to have it electrostatically painted but need a way to recreate the graphic on the door. Champion for obvious reasons won't give out the file and any quick sign companies I've contacted need a file to reproduce the art. Ideally I like to have a stencil created, then I could use an airbrush to paint the graphic after the safe is painted. I'd prefer paint to a vinyl application. Anyone been down this road?

 

[Charlie98]

You might see if Champion would just sell you the vinyl transfer. I understand you don't want vinyl, but that would be the easiest solution. Tell them what you are doing, they may even send you one for free.

 

[mcb]

Do a Google image search for [Champion Safe Logo] pick out the highest resolution image of the logo you can find. Get it printed at the size you want.

Personally I would leave it off and fill if full of stickers from brands I like.

 

[sevt_chevelle]

Do you know someone with a cricket machine?
With one you can take simple photos or text and turn them into vinyl templates.

I customize hammers, making a 10lb sledge for a friend. Found this cool graphic on the net, uploaded image to the cricket and made a template that allowed me to stain the image.

You could use a text generator site and find any text style you like.

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[CapnMac]

This is an 1131 x 367 pixel graphic:

It's from this link: https://targetworldinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Champion-Safe.jpg

Measure how wide you want the image. Put the jpg file on a thumb drive and hike over to Office Depot. Ask the nice people at the Print center to print this out on the right size of paper. You might want a couple of copies. This will run you about $10-12 (or used to, might be $20 now-a-days).

Or see if there's a vinyl wrap place near you, they would be able to turn out a copy, to your size, in color.

I inverted the image to make a better "mask" source:

 

[Sefuller5741]

This is an 1131 x 367 pixel graphic:
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It's from this link: https://targetworldinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Champion-Safe.jpg

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Thank you!