[Archers] Custom Target Advice

[john atkins]

I would add to Zemi's post that if you drop an image into Excel, a program most people already have, you can enlarge it as much as required. Go into page view to see how many pages you are expanding over. This also helps size the image the size you would like. I did a full sized Moose using this method once. The beauty of Excel is that the right and bottom 1/4 inch gets repeated on the next sheet so aligning the edges is very simple. If you think of a spreadsheet it would be the rightmost column and the bottom row repeated on the next sheet. I just trim off the non-printed margin and tape them all together then put the entire image on the backstop I've constructed.
cog 

    On Thursday, September 8, 2016 10:36 PM, Zemi <overlookedfile at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 A recommendation regarding the actual target faces -If you download an image you like and open it in paint (assuming a Windows system), you can change the print settings to print the image across as many regular 8.5x11 pages as you would like. If that seems intimidating, there is a program called Rasterbater (yeah, I know) that will do the same thing online. The Paint program method is what I used to print up the attached images, for example, and then I glued them onto the target faces and colored them with markers. The owl and snake were each printed on 4 pages (a 2x2 grid). The mouth was printed 16 pages (4x4 grid) and the smaller figures were printed 6 to a page. You could paint over them just as easily as using markers. I did 4 targets like this (each target is 2ftx4ft) in about 3 hours counting target assembly (3 1" blue insulation foam boards, 4 layers of 1/8" cardboard which was too much cardboard per target, two tubes of liquid nail), printing, cutting, pasting, and coloring. I used basically Lord Cian's pvc pipe and fiberglass rod method of setting the targets as shown in the last picture.Hope that helps,
Xwaranzem "Zem" (formerly Artemisia)
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On Sep 8, 2016 8:48 PM, "Rick Ferrell" <marylandgreenman at gmail.com> wrote:

Noble friends of the bow,
It has been a quiet year for my bows sadly (except for some nice Combat Archery).  However, a light on the horizon is that next month I will be helping our good Baron and Baroness select my replacement as Baronial Archer Champion of Highland Foorde.
To this end, I have a theme in mind and don't mind working on the targets but I beg your advice and suggestions:   I have never actually painted archery targets.  While I have some modicum of artistic skill (enough to only be mildly embarrassed) I am not certain of the actual logistics involved.   I understand I will need a large target backdrop or, if that isn't possible with one month's notice, I may need to use individual bales/butts which we have a few of.  I am aware of the cardboard layered ones but welcome advice on how to maximize those safely and efficiently.
The pattern I have in mind is much like some of the targets I've seen at On Target and Royal Archery shoots, basically a 3'X5" board.  We do have a wonderful huge archery backdrop net that is about 6 feet high and easily 15 feel long ("The Green Monster" as I call it in honor of the stadium of the same nickname) and a ludicrously clear backfield so the main concern is really just where do you get the huge rolls of paper and is there a certain kind best used for a day's shooting for 15 or so people?
The target I have in mind is a scattering of our Highland Foorde award animals (Lark, Golden Hawk, Hart) as well as a few Stars in the "sky" above them.   And of course the main target images on this paper will be various natural predators which are trying to attack our Baronial animals!  Negative points for hitting our noble animals, positive points for the mean old bear, fox, mountain lion, etc.
Anyway, advice welcomed and with the fact I basically only have about three weekends to make these things!   Many thanks for all your help good archers!
P.S. - Baron Fergus already knows about this, I just figured many minds are better than just two.   :)
Lord Rycherd of CaistronBaronial Archer Champion of Highland Foorde
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