Signage

I am using some Tim Mee plam trees to hold up the Kiss Kiss Club sign.

The real sign has little lights on it.

So I got some gold and red "jewels" to add to the sign.  The sign letters are plastic, painted red, orange, red for the Kiss Kiss Club.

The jewels are glued to a clear plastic sheet.  I don't know what they are used for in real life.  My wife suggested maybe finger nail decorations.

So using tweezers I peel off one jewels at a time and glue it onto the letter.

I used these tools to drill the holes in the palm tree trunks to support the sign brackets.  Two holes on each palm tree trunk near the top and about an inch down from there.  Line up the sign brackets, and mark the location where the hole needs to be with a marker.  Then using a awl, push a pilot hole into the location.  Then drill a small hole, and a medium hole.

The black bits are the supports for the letters and get pushed into the palm tree trunks to hold up the signage.  In this photo the sign is being supported by extra brackets, the white plastic, while I add the jewels that simulate lights.  You can see the jewels lined up in place near the upper right of the photo.  The word CLUB has already had the jewels applied.  Orange jewels over red paint, and the last S also has red jewels over orange paint.

A still from the James Bond movie Thunderball, showing the Kiss Kiss Club sign and my version below.

Some additional palms I am working on.