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Joking (and Photoshop) aside, I think it was a clever marketing decision to stick with red. A distinctive brand identity is a powerful thingmtier0067 wrote:... I wonder what would have happened with this company had they not started with the red color?? Thoughts??
neolithic wrote:Mr Nordelius: We have request sometimes for other colours. Kraftwerk asked for grey or blank synthesisers many years ago, and we said no and they didn’t buy them. But we didn’t want to repaint them.
yes, that was the part that surprised me the most, really neat job!ralhop wrote:looks Nice , how did you wrap the wooden panels ?
I like to inject a little humour from time to time...spradders wrote:I love threads like this. The winking mr nord with blue in the background, LoL.
hopefully it's balanced by my more useful contributions for neolithic's blue pic ArfNtz wrote:lol
I removed the top (previously redSpider wrote:Nice job!
Yes total black would've been more clean-looking (without the residual red and yellow on the panel), but I understand that it would have required a totally different -and much more complicated- job.
I especially like the end wood blocks, they look almost "real"!
yes, that was the part that surprised me the most, really neat job!ralhop wrote:looks Nice , how did you wrap the wooden panels ?
Did you disassemble the Stage to do the job properly, or were you able to wrap it without disassembling?
In the second case, I'm really amazed at your skill -and patience!
) part and then the wooden ends from it. The ends were much more difficult with their many curves, but with a blowdryer (and three pairs of hands ) we managed to do a decent job, and certainly close enough for rock'n'roll! 