Foreign Military Seals, Badges, Crests, and Logos
Fig 1 -Mahogany shield plaque with carved 3D bas-relief Canadian Combat Engineers emblem, and 24K Gold Leaf gilded leaves, crown and beaver.
WELCOME TO OUR PHOTO GALLERY OF FOREIGN MILITARY PLAQUES
Welcome to the foreign military plaque page of the website of The Wood & Metal Plaque Company, a division of Art Sign Works, Inc. that specializes in designing and manufacturing custom plaques.
If you have just entered our website and you want an overview of our company and all our products, please start with our HOME page (tab upper left header), which has a listing of all plaque types in the silver box on the left side of the page. Other web pages and photo galleries can be visited by clicking on the titles and pull down menus in the gold masthead at the top of this page. Photo galleries and descriptions of plaques of the seals and unit crests for the US DoD and the five armed forces (US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, the US Army and the US Coast Guard) are shown in other Galleries in this Military section, which can be viewed by clicking on the underlined link or by clicking on its name listed horizontally immediately below the gold masthead above. US Federal and State government & agencies & courts, local Government (county, city & village), police & sheriff, and fire department wall plaques (including badge and shoulder patch plaques) are located in other sections which can be viewed with clicking on the pull-down menus below the gold masthead.
This page provides a description and photo Gallery of our standard, custom, and personalized wall and podium plaques for foreign military units, officers, and other personnel. We have many styles and materials, and can make plaques in sizes from 10 inches to 10 feet in diameter. This photo gallery shows plaques featuring the seals, emblems, and insignia of countries other than the US, including Canada, the UK, Germany, Russia, and Nigeria. We design and carve a wide variety of custom and personalized hand-crafted wood and metal dimensional wall and podium plaques of seals, emblems, logos, badges, insignia, memorials and awards. We offer the highest quality materials and workmanship, great customer service, short turnaround times (typically 30 days from order to shipment), and factory-direct affordable prices to government, commercial, non-profit and consumer clients. We also offer wholesale prices to retailers and re-sellers, and discounts for buys of 3 or more identical plaques.
Fig 2 -Plaque for UK National Crime Agency, with carved 3-D Coat-of-Arms
PRODUCTS
We make attractive and authentic custom carved plaques from natural wood, artist-painted High-Density-Urethane (HDU) composite, and bronze, brass, nickel-silver, aluminum-plated and 24K gold and silver-leaf plaques of all sizes and designs for the foreign military organizations. We make custom plaques wall, podium and ship plaques featuring the seals, emblems, insignias, badges, logos and shoulder patches of military organizations and personnel. These plaques include facility/organization and unit identity, command boards, unit / individual recognition & awards, and retirement and memorial plaques.
If you have questions on a specific type of plaque you are interested in, or you want information on our plaques or prices, you are always welcome to call Christie or Regina at 951-698-8484 or you can email us at info@artsignworks.com and we will respond quickly.
PLAQUE STYLES
In this gallery and the other military galleries, we have a total of over 1200 photos of wall plaques and signs that we have made of military seals, crests, emblems, badges, insignia, medals, flags, and shoulder patches. We also make base entrance signs, building signs, way-finding signs, ship signs, command boards, podium plaques, wall signs and door signs. These are shown in our companion website, www.artsignworks.com.
We make wood, High-Density-Urethane (HDU), and metal-coated wall plaques and signs as shown throughout this and other Galleries. We can customize the size, shape, carving relief, text, materials, and color scheme of any plaque shown on this page, and we can make a custom plaque for ANY artwork you may have. Send us a drawing, a photo or a rough sketch, and we will design and make a carved dimensional plaque to your specifications. We can make plaques that are engraved (V-carved or flat bottom) , 2.5-D (multi-level relief), or 3-D (sculptured bas-relief). We have a large library of existing 3-D and 2.5-D computer models that we use to carve these plaques, which greatly reduces graphic artist labor costs. All our plaques are manufactured in the USA by American craftsmen.
Although we show many painted High-Density-Urethane plaques on this page, we can make any plaque out of natural wood (stained) or put any of several types of metallic coatings/color schemes on them . We can also put digitally printed long-lasting full color vinyl (photos or very elaborate painted or digital art) as an applique on any HDU or wood plaque.
Fig. 3 - We make plaques in three different styles of relief, as shown above. Engraved plaques are in the same price category as 2.5-D relief plaques. Prices increase from left to right.
Fig 4 -Canadian Air Force Officers and Men at Dedication Ceremony for WW II Battle of Britain hero, Russel Bragg, OBE. We can supply custom plaques for facilities and ceremonies honoring military heroes such as this.
PLAQUE RETAIL PRICES
Our plaques have wide variations in prices, depending on size and style. Fig. 1 below shows our three basic relief styles, 2-D flat relief , 2.5-D multi-level relief, and 3-D bas-relief. These can be made of different materials, including natural wood, artist-painted High-Density-Urethane (HDU) , metal-coated HDU, and acrylic. Our STYLE page describes these in detail. All 3000 photos of plaques on this website has a Style Category and a Price Code listed in the second or third paragraph in the text description under the photo (click on the photo or title to expand the photo and read the text to get the price code of that plaque, then look up the price for different size plaques with that style on the Price List at the bottom of the PRICE page).
Our lowest price economy 2-D plaques feature digitally-printed full-color giclee vinyl appliques mounted on a round or rectangular a solid wood or acrylic base. The retail prices for this type of two-dimensional (2-D) flat custom plaque are as low as $90 (acrylic base) to $140 (Mahogany solid wood base) for 10 inch diameter plaques. The same style plaques in a 18 diameter size have prices of $140 (acrylic) and $260 (Mahogany). We also offer a matched set of the five armed forces seals in these styles at a discount. These low prices assume we have made a previous plaque of the same artwork design ( featured in one of our Galleries of over 3000 photos, including photos of 3-D plaques), or for new artwork, that we are provided a print-ready JPEG photo or colored drawing of the artwork for the plaque. These are styles 1.4.1 ( wood base) and 1.4.3 ( acrylic base) on our PRICE page, with examples shown on our 2-D Giclee Plaque web page.
Fig 5 -Carved Mahogany shield wall plaque made for the UK Royal Air Force. This center artwork is a digitally-printed 2-D giclee vinyl applique.
Our carved 2.5-D multi-level or engraved hand-crafted and artist-painted plaques have prices about twice that of the 2-D flat plaques with giclee printed art. These prices depend on the size, material, carving complexity, and number of colors. Prices for custom carved 18 inch diameter 2.5-D artist-painted HDU or stained wood custom plaques vary from $240 to $370. Prices increase with size. The PRICE page gives prices for carved 2.5-D plaques of various sizes, materials, styles, and number of colors. About 80% of our military unit plaques are carved in 2.5-D multi-level flat or engraved relief, using High-Density-Urethane (HDU) as the substrate. These are very popular and look great. Many times the artwork provided to us for custom military plaques does not benefit from 3-D rendering, and we recommend a 2.5-D relief carving which looks nearly as good and is about 2/3 the price. Our 2.5-D relief plaques carve faster and are much faster to paint than 3-D bas-relief plaques, so they have lower prices. Most of our military and many of our government, university and corporate plaques are carved in 2.5-D relief.
Our premium plaques are carved in 3-D bas-relief, using wood (usually Mahogany, Cedar, or Redwood), or High-Density-Urethane (HDU) as the substrate. These are higher- priced carved 3-D bas-relief artist-painted plaques, and have prices about 3 times that of the 2-D plaques. These are very high quality plaques, which usually feature great seals, and are often ordered by higher level commands in the military services, federal and state government agencies and courts. Prices for 18 inch diameter 3-D artist-painted or bronze, brass or silver-plated HDU or stained wood custom plaques vary from $380 to $560. Prices increase with plaque size. The PRICE list gives prices for carved 3-D plaques of various sizes, materials, styles, and number of colors. These high-quality plaques may require from 8 to 24 hours of machine carving time, and then 6 to 8 hours of artisan work to hand-sand and artist-brush paint or metal polish them. They are unique works-of-art for our most discriminating clients.
Fig 6 -British and Australian Royal Air Force Officers at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. next to plaques we made of their emblems/seals. This ceremony celebrated the reactivation of the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force No.80 Squadron. A gunmetal grey F-35A Lightning II is in the background.
PLEASE CONTACT US
Please call or email us for a price quote on a specific plaque. We will work with you to design and build the exact plaque you want. One of our knowledgeable and helpful Customer Service Representatives, Christie , Regina, or Liz, will respond to your request promptly. Call us at 951-698-8484 or email us at info@artsignworks.com. Or, you can fill out and submit our on-line Request a Quote form. We would like to make your plaque, and we are confident that you will be pleased with it. We take great pride in every product we make for our valued clients. We offer a 2 year warranty on all our products, and our indoor plaques will last many decades without degradation.
WEBSITE NAVIGATION
You can view the bottom of the page using the slider on the scroll bar in the right margin. You can click on a photo or a title of a photo below to see an expanded view and a description of that plaque. You can return to this page by clicking on Return to List on the bottom left of each plaque title or description, or by using your back browser button. You can go to another Section or Gallery page by clicking on an item in the pull-down menus in the gold masthead at the top of this page.
You can search for a specific plaque type (e.g., "FBI" ) by entering the key word in the search box in the upper right of the gold masthead. You can view a list and use the navigation bar for all 24 Gallery types by viewing the silver box on the left side of the Home page. You can view a description of different plaque styles by going to the Style section listed above in the gold masthead. To request information, request a design and a quote, send a file, or to place an order, click on the text (e.g., "contact ", "quote", "file" or "order") in the far upper right of the gold masthead at the top of this page. All prices are given on the "Price" page in the menu in the gold masthead.
For more information on design options, prices and delivery times, please call us at 951-698- 8484 or email us at info@artsignworks.com, and our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives Christie and Regina will be pleased to help you.
