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Post by hunhdisciple on Sept 2, 2016 7:08:29 GMT -6
What are some field painting ideas you guys have done or come across?
When we were finishing up last night, we started talking about doing something in the end zone. We had a checkerboard idea, or diamonds. Or the Notre Dame slashes.
Ultimately, the only thing that prevented us from doing anything was the fact that none of us really had a good idea of where to start and how to set it all up.
So, what are some things you all have done for your field?
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Post by peacock1915 on Sept 2, 2016 9:50:28 GMT -6
We do the Notre Dame stripes. Simple to do once lined out and can vary the colors some.
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Post by realdawg on Sept 2, 2016 10:01:00 GMT -6
Notre Dame stripes are probably easiest to do. Just takes a little measuring. We have a local art teacher who comes and paints our school name in the end zone before the first game. After that we just keep it outlined and fill it in before the games.
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 5, 2016 5:45:20 GMT -6
We have a midfield logo. They also do a cancer or red/white/blue ribbon around the 20 yd line.
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Post by morris on Sept 5, 2016 11:36:16 GMT -6
I hate painting the field so I don't even think of doing any extra. I do think the checker pattern is kind of cool.
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Post by rsmith627 on Sept 5, 2016 12:09:34 GMT -6
There are still guys playing on grass?
Man do I miss grass. Checkers are cool if you can figure out how to do it. The last time I played on grass we couldn't do anything unless we were buying the extra paint n
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 5, 2016 14:50:00 GMT -6
Do you have a bulk machine? I could not imagine how much time and paint it would take to do checkerboards with aerosol cans. |
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Post by utchuckd on Sept 5, 2016 14:50:53 GMT -6
Oh snap! I didn't know it would embed a tweet.
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Post by vanden48 on Sept 5, 2016 22:56:07 GMT -6
I did an American Flag from the 40 to the 35 yard line. I didn't mean for it to get that big but it just ended up that way. It was for a military appreciation day. I think that flag might be there the whole year now.
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Post by Coach Bennett on Sept 6, 2016 4:48:59 GMT -6
Take your logo and put it up on an overhead projector (if you can find one nowadays). Project it onto a tarp hanging on your gym wall and trace the perimeter. Cut out the tarp to make a stencil and then lay it down on the field.
Forgot to mention to go to the field with a tape so you know how far back to pull the projector to get the size right. What looks big enough on a gym wall can look really small on the field.
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Post by rosey65 on Sept 6, 2016 12:44:37 GMT -6
We painted our field green a few years back!
Mole Crickets tore through the county, ruined most of the fields. We wanted to look good for our local TV game.
btw...have you ever seen a mole cricket??? Good lord, it is a vile animal. Look it up in Google. Threw me for a loop when I first got to FL
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Post by The Lunch Pail on Sept 6, 2016 18:32:46 GMT -6
What are some field painting ideas you guys have done or come across? When we were finishing up last night, we started talking about doing something in the end zone. We had a checkerboard idea, or diamonds. Or the Notre Dame slashes. Ultimately, the only thing that prevented us from doing anything was the fact that none of us really had a good idea of where to start and how to set it all up. So, what are some things you all have done for your field? We have a pretty plain grass field no logos or names, just numbers, lines, and hashes. We paint a logo on the 50 for homecoming. However, the coolest design I had ever seen was from one of our rivals. They had a grass field with no track (field had been there since the 1940's). They had the midfield logo, names including a horseshoe in the end zone, all in blue, white and red (school colors). In this steep hill on the southeast corner of the end zone, they had written "Pinto Country" and I always thought that was cool. But what makes a facility great isn't exactly the field, it's the atmosphere. This was a very old town, and the building was surrounded by old Victorian era buildings like you'd see on a town square and their fans were crazy. They always packed the stadium and bled into the visitors section. Not to mention, in an old town, on an old field, they ran a DTDW with 300 pound linemen who were meaner than anyone else I'd ever seen. It was pretty fitting. |
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Post by jonh on Sept 12, 2016 11:07:08 GMT -6
Talk to your cad teacher at school. Its not hard to draw something out that be staked off with string and landscape spikes. I do a different design in our endzones every year. jherrera@esu2.org if you want more info.
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Post by leighty on Sept 12, 2016 11:11:40 GMT -6
Coached at one school where inmates from the local correctional facility painted the field. Had a fairly intricate midfield logo and checkerboard end zones. They always did a great job.
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