Bought my car in Paragon
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b0bcatmc,
Posted on: 2012-11-15 24:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I'd buy a couple Ford ones for me and my wife's cars.
Kings Row or Steel Canyon maybe?
How do you make them?
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I bought the black plastic plate frames off eBay, in a lot of a hundred.
The white lettering is cut out of adhesive vinyl, the same thing they make signs and lettering for the outsides of cars with. I found the logos on the 'net, and use Illustrator to turn them into vectors. Illustrator did the fonts trivially, as well.
Once I had vectors, I went to TechShop and cut them on the vinyl cutter. If you're not a TechShop member, anyplace that makes signs can cut them, too.
The vinyl cutter is pretty quick - five, ten minutes - but it took me a couple of hours to get all the parts of the vinyl I didn't want off the backing. Lettering is hard that way, with lots of little detailed shapes. Once that was done, they stuck right down.
The scaling between Illustrator and the vinyl cutter wasn't 100% accurate, so some of the text was too long, and things didn't quite fit. A second try will fix that.
If I can ever get back in there and do it. I've been buried at the office. I haven't even managed to finish mine, much less consider making some for other people. 
A sign shop can do the work, but it might be expensive for their artist's time.
I'm such a geek. Some of my heroes have journals.
These are awesome.
I wonder which zone would have the Kia dealership...
(I wish we'd had these on our Elantra... we had the license plate RPG FAN.)
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That is awesome! Just don't drive like the people in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. 
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Hey, they somehow acquired non-lethal cars!
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Originally Posted by Fire Man
That is awesome! Just don't drive like the people in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles.
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These are great! Thumbs up on the creativity. 
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I think this is pretty cool and LOL I even like it that you wrote journals for your characters! That along with my own experience demonstrates (imo) that MMORPGaming is just as immersive as traditional tabletop gaming and LARP.
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Originally Posted by Laufeyjarson
I live in a place with all sorts of people moving in, and you can often tell it from the license plate frame on their car. Any Pittsburgh plate frame on a California plate tells you something.
I thought I'd make license plate frames for the car from a car dealer in Paragon. Few would notice, fewer would get the joke, but for those few, it's all good. For years, I have had this idea. I finally ordered the parts on August 29th. What happened the next day? Doh! I decided the joke was just as good even if the game went away, and made some prototypes. I've been slammed at work so haven't gotten in to finish them - I've been playing CoH instead - and only have these to show:  I thought I'd share them while I still could. Where are the different brands of car dealers located in Paragon? |
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I'd say Founders Falls would house the Kia dealership and probably the Land Rover dealership as well.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
These are awesome.
I wonder which zone would have the Kia dealership... (I wish we'd had these on our Elantra... we had the license plate RPG FAN.) Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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Yet another example of NCSoft failing to properlly merchandise their IP. Tsk tsk...
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I wonder which zone would have the Kia dealership...
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... I hate my Kia so damn much.
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Founders' Falls Infiniti just rolls off the tongue ...
I could see Atlas Park with a Toyota dealership. Atlas is so clean these days, they must be driving hybrids and electrics, like the Prius.
Steel Canyon BMW/Lexus sounds about right.
What would you find in the Rogue Isles? I'd assume St Martial would have Ferrari and Lamborghini ...
I live in a place with all sorts of people moving in, and you can often tell it from the license plate frame on their car. Any Pittsburgh plate frame on a California plate tells you something.
I thought I'd make license plate frames for the car from a car dealer in Paragon. Few would notice, fewer would get the joke, but for those few, it's all good.
For years, I have had this idea. I finally ordered the parts on August 29th. What happened the next day? Doh!
I decided the joke was just as good even if the game went away, and made some prototypes. I've been slammed at work so haven't gotten in to finish them - I've been playing CoH instead - and only have these to show:
I thought I'd share them while I still could.
Where are the different brands of car dealers located in Paragon?
I'm such a geek. Some of my heroes have journals.