DrunkleWade
Chip Dabbler
I’ve been working on this set for a few months now. It started as a Cali set, but as I developed the art, it soon morphed into a Dunes inspired Vegas set instead.
The Background
Lake Kawana is a man made tidal lake on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia and is the heart of a growing precinct that is continuing to take shape. There are many medium rise apartment buildings being built both on the west side along the lakefront (the suburb of Birtinya where I live) and also along the beachfront to the east which is known as Bokarina.
For the last few years there has always been a construction crane on the skyline.
Those two are building my new home!
The view from my current and future balconies takes in the lake in the foreground, which is surrounded by a walking path, the sprawling suburb of Wurtulla beyond that and lastly the ocean.
There are a few very tall Norfolk Island Pines along the beach as well as a fair share of Alexander Palms peppered about the place.
I get a magnificent sunrise over the beach and often catch glimpses of the cruise ships and container vessels crawling along the channel out of the port in Brisbane before heading out to sea.
The Inlay Design
My immediate inspiration was the Dunes Hotel & Country Club where;
The Chip Design
I was all over the place on this and eventually just went full Dunes treatment on it. A CPC set was ordered before Christmas due to FOMO but after the news that the company would continue to exist, I cancelled the order a week or so ago. Four grand on 600 chips that would take 6 months to arrive really couldn’t be justified.
A ceramic set was the most likely candidate but then I came across this wonderful forum and the cap-dash Tinas.
So, with special thanks to @Okku and @Colquhoun I present my draft of the Lake Kawana Club…
I took some liberties with the fracs, and rather than the white 500, I preferred the purple. That freed up the white one to serve as a member chip.
Also utilising the X values to allow a 5/10c frac and the orange to be substituted as and where needed.
I trust you enjoyed the write up.
The Background
Lake Kawana is a man made tidal lake on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia and is the heart of a growing precinct that is continuing to take shape. There are many medium rise apartment buildings being built both on the west side along the lakefront (the suburb of Birtinya where I live) and also along the beachfront to the east which is known as Bokarina.
For the last few years there has always been a construction crane on the skyline.
Those two are building my new home!
The view from my current and future balconies takes in the lake in the foreground, which is surrounded by a walking path, the sprawling suburb of Wurtulla beyond that and lastly the ocean.
There are a few very tall Norfolk Island Pines along the beach as well as a fair share of Alexander Palms peppered about the place.
I get a magnificent sunrise over the beach and often catch glimpses of the cruise ships and container vessels crawling along the channel out of the port in Brisbane before heading out to sea.
The Inlay Design
My immediate inspiration was the Dunes Hotel & Country Club where;
- the putting green and creek is replaced with the lake and path,
- the mounds and trees replaced with the pines, palms and buildings,
- the flag is replaced by a construction crane, and
- the font would be something similar to the Dunes font.
The Chip Design
I was all over the place on this and eventually just went full Dunes treatment on it. A CPC set was ordered before Christmas due to FOMO but after the news that the company would continue to exist, I cancelled the order a week or so ago. Four grand on 600 chips that would take 6 months to arrive really couldn’t be justified.
A ceramic set was the most likely candidate but then I came across this wonderful forum and the cap-dash Tinas.
So, with special thanks to @Okku and @Colquhoun I present my draft of the Lake Kawana Club…
I took some liberties with the fracs, and rather than the white 500, I preferred the purple. That freed up the white one to serve as a member chip.
Also utilising the X values to allow a 5/10c frac and the orange to be substituted as and where needed.
I trust you enjoyed the write up.
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Yeah, they are building the two apartment towers at the same time.
