Bobski's Blue Chip (2 Viewers)

[palindrome]

I think I'm getting ready to take the plunge and order a set of customs. A few years back some of my friends starting calling me Bobski and the nickname just kind of stuck. Combine that with the fact that I have always preferred a blue $1 chip and you have the theme I have decided to work with, Bobski's Blue Chip. It has been fun following other people's design threads so I decided to post my starting point and see what kind of feedback I get from all you fun people. Here is what I have so far:

I will do some updates later on with background on some of my choices along with changes I make to the inlays. I'm already working on some alternates and may change them altogether.

 

[Quicksilver-75]

Can you get some red into that green? All the other colors look well blended except the green which is very green.

 

[Toby]

What denoms are we looking at here?

There's a lotta blue in the mix currently. I'd introduce some other colirs, like more yellow and some bright white. DG pink makes for a great spit color as well.

Good mold choice for the theme!

 

[links_slayer]

I'm guessing frac, lots of options for the $1, then $5 and $25

 

[Tommy]

The $5 and $25 look good. Orange frac is cool with blue $1s.

 

[palindrome]

I'm guessing frac, lots of options for the $1, then $5 and $25

Exactly right. Orange quarter, blue ones, red five, and green twenty five.

 

[palindrome]

What denoms are we looking at here?

There's a lotta blue in the mix currently. I'd introduce some other colirs, like more yellow and some bright white. DG pink makes for a great spit color as well.

Good mold choice for the theme!

Blue spots are intentional with the thinking of having a blue spot on every chip. We can try different things but I thought it would tie the set together.

 

[mike32]

Be careful with orange and red chips in play at the same time. They are too similar in my opinion. Yellow $5?

 

[palindrome]

Be careful with orange and red chips in play at the same time. They are too similar in my opinion. Yellow $5?

This is a good point. I'm going to need to look at a day glo tiger sample chip in person.

I have also considered making a Delta Club clone for the fiver.

 

[Tommy]

The $5 and $25 look good. Orange frac is cool with blue $1s.

Be careful with orange and red chips in play at the same time. They are too similar in my opinion. Yellow $5?

Doh.. I didn't even realize that. Maybe arc yellow or dayglo peach then.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

This is a good point. I'm going to need to look at a day glo tiger sample chip in person.

I have also considered making a Delta Club clone for the fiver.

THIS!

 

[liftapint]

Your green chip is HAWT!!

 

[BGinGA]

I'm guessing frac, lots of options for the $1, then $5 and $25

Strongly advise going with:

tiger frac
blue $1
non-red $5
green $25 or pick'em $20 (could be almost anything, really)

My preference is a yellow hue $5 and either black/white/charcoal $20, depending on how dark/light the $1 blue turns out to be....

 

[BGinGA]

 

[jbutler]

Your green chip is HAWT!!

thinking the same thing. one of the best custom green chips i've seen in a while.

my contributions:

i would suggest that you definitely should change the dark blue on the green chip to retro blue. i've yet to see a case where dark blue looks better than retro blue for any reason. retro just has that glow to it whereas dark blue just looks flat to me.

 

[palindrome]

Thanks for all the replies everybody! Good feedback so far.

I think I'm going to need a sample chip for the day glo tiger. My sample set is Links old set and it doesn't have a couple of the newer colors. I'm working on the inlay this morning and will probably mock up some non-red fivers in the process.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Love Dave's # 4 mockup and Jake's mockup

 

[palindrome]

OK, I did some work to the inlay. I changed up the background a little bit and made an inlay for the quarter. Should I leave the inlay blue for all the denominations or have the color echo the base of the chip? I can try it both ways but I think I like the matching colors so far.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

I like the matching, makes the colors pop more.

 

[palindrome]

Some other options for the quarters.

I think 1, 3, and 8 are pretty great.

 

[jbutler]

Some other options for the quarters.

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I think 1, 3, and 8 are pretty great.

1, 2, or 3 imo. love that fucking dayglo tiger.

don't yet have samples, but i actually don't think you'd have much of a problem with differentiation using a dg tiger frac and red $5 and i'm usually really anal about that sort of thing. but ymmv obv.

 

[palindrome]

don't yet have samples, but i actually don't think you'd have much of a problem with differentiation using a dg tiger frac and red $5 and i'm usually really anal about that sort of thing. but ymmv obv.

I'm hoping this is the case as I really like the original fiver. My wife loved that combo when I was working on the first go around.

 

[liftapint]

I like #1, the original.

By the way, here is a shot of the orange and red next to each other.

 

[liftapint]

thinking the same thing. one of the best custom green chips i've seen in a while.

i would suggest that you definitely should change the dark blue on the green chip to retro blue. i've yet to see a case where dark blue looks better than retro blue for any reason. retro just has that glow to it whereas dark blue just looks flat to me.

I second that! Retro Blue >>> Dark Blue (and it isn't even close).

 

[Toby]

I like 2 and 8 for the quartets.

I am pretty sure DG Tiger appears significantly brighter in the design tool than in the flesh. Still a hawt color tho

 

[palindrome]

So I thought I would mention the inspiration for the $1 chip. I'm kind of a baseball nut and the Twins came out with new home jerseys/hats that I'm in love with. The new color scheme looks great in person.

I tried to match the colors on the $1 chip to a certain extent. The dark blue base would be a closer match to the color scheme, but looking at the sample chips in person I like the standard blue better.

 

[manamongkids]

i like #2 and #4 the most

 

[liftapint]

For the $1, I'm a fan of #8. I think for the most part, my personal preference is 3 colors on a chip -- base + 2 edge spot colors. After that, too busy for my brain. Unless of course we're talking Mapes I'm sure there are other exceptions. But sometimes, simple is better, I think.

Edit: never mind.my favorite of your chips is the green one, which has 3 color spots. I guess I am just a fan of simple.

 

[palindrome]

Playing around with different fives....

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Have you tried doing the yellow $5 that you posted?