Carved 3D Painted, Wood, Bronze, Brass, Silver Military Plaques

WELCOME TO OUR PHOTO GALLERY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE & DEFENSE AGENCY PLAQUES

Department of Defense and Defense Agency Plaques

Fig. 1 - Shown above are different styles of our dimensional wall plaques for the Department of Defense. Most of the plaques shown are carved in 3-D bas-relief, the rest are carved in 2.5-D flat relief. Shown are multi-colored and gold & silver painted, bronze-plated, and 24K gold and silver-leaf gilded plaques. Any of these plaques can also be ordered in 2-D flat relief with giclee printed vinyl on an acrylic base.

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We honor our servicemen and women who gave their lives in the line of duty serving our country .

ALL OF OUR SIGNS & PLAQUES ARE MADE IN THE USA BY AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN

Fig. 2 - The Pentagon, which contains the Offices of the Secretary of Defense, the JCS Members and many of their supporting organizations. Several of our plaques are mounted on walls in the Pentagon.

Welcome to the DoD and Defense agencies 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.

This page shows wall and podium plaques of the seals and crest for the Department of Defense (DoD) organizations including the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of the services, and Defense agencies. It also shows sets of the six armed forces seals starting with photo IP-1160 on the photo Gallery below. Photo Galleries and descriptions of plaques of over 2000 service & unit seals & crests , logos, ship & division Plaques, medals, insignia, medallions, pennants, command and crew list boards, retirement & award plaques, etc. for the six armed forces (USN, USMC, USAF, USA, USSF, and USCG) are shown in the six other Galleries in this section, which can be viewed by clicking on the underlined link above or by clicking on its name listed horizontally immediately below the gold masthead above.

Fig. 3 - This plaque features the DoD seal, carved in 3-D bas-relief from Mahogany. The plaque is artist-painted with long lasting sign enamels, and clear-coated twice. We an make this style plaque in any diameter from 14 inches to 96 inches.

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. These include the Federal and state executive and legislative branches of government, military, local Government (county, city & village) and police, sheriff and fire department wall plaques (including badge and shoulder patch plaques) .

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. All our plaques are manufactured in the USA by Americans using American-made materials. We have many styles and materials, and can make plaques in sizes from 10 inches to 10 feet in diameter.

Fig. 4 -We make podium plaques of all sizes and styles, including easily detachable ones for portable podiums.

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 US military, We make custom crest and seal wall and podium plaques. These plaques include organization and unit identity, command boards, unit/individual recognition & awards, and personnel retirement and memorial plaques.

In this gallery and the five Armed Forces Galleries, we have a total of over 2000 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, command boards, podium plaques, wall signs, ship signs and door signs.

Fig 5 - General Milley, Chairman of of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), is standing in front of one of our plaques (star with wreath) at a Gold Star Family ceremony .

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, Regina or Liz at 951-698-8484 or you can email us at info@artsignworks.com and we will respond quickly.

Fig. 6 - Previous joint-Chiefs-of-Staff (JCS). The DoD, JCS, and four of the Armed Forces seals plaques are on the wall.

PLAQUE STYLES

We offer custom carved 2-D, 2.5-D, 3-D and engraved dimensional authentic wall plaques of all sizes, from 10 inches to 120 inches in diameter, which are made from multi-color painted carved High-Density-Urethane (HDU), wood (cedar, redwood, mahogany, oak, maple, cherry), and metal-coated HDU (brass, bronze, copper, silver-nickel, and aluminum). We will work with you to design and build the exact wall plaque you want. 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 of your seal or crest, and we will design and make a carved dimensional plaque to your specifications. .

Fig. 7 - New Joint Chief of Staff (JCOS) Seal/Emblem, with Five Services Represented

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.The various styles of the plaques we make are described in our plaque STYLES section (click on "STYLES" on upper gold masthead to access pulldown menu). All our plaques are manufactured in the USA by American craftsmen.

We can also combine materials on a plaque. We often use Mahogany plaque boards and carve 3-D HDU appliques which are either multi-color painted or metal-plated, to mount on the Mahogany. We can cut out text and artwork from thin sheets of aluminum and mount these on 2.5-D Mahogany or cedar plaques with raised text and art; we call these metal-clad wood plaques. The contrast between the shiny metal and rough dark wood is striking. We often gild V-carved text of Mahogany plaques with 24K gold or silver leaf. We can also gild areas of painted HDU plaques, usually raised text and art.

We also make separate cut-out metal, stained wood and painted HDU letters. We can provide a 3-D bas-relief cast bronze and aluminum memorial or living person plaque featuring the face or figure of an officer or enlisted man, etc. if we are provided a good photograph. Although we show primarily 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 . Our master artists paint most of our military plaques with artist brushes or an airbrush using long lasting UV resistant Matthews acrylic polyurethane paint and 1-Shot Sign enamels. We then coat all of our indoor and outdoor plaques with Matthews clear coat for additional protection. We can also mount digitally printed long-lasting full color giclee vinyl (photos or very elaborate painted or digital art) as an applique on any HDU or wood plaque. For Command Boards, we make photo frames with glass covers where photos and names can be easily replaced when there are personnel changes.

Fig. 8- Shown above are artist-painted plaques of the six armed forces official seals we manufacture. These can be purchased separately or as a set. We have several versions of these (aluminum, brass, bronze, artist-painted HDU, mahogany, printed giclee vinyl on acrylic). Typical sizes range from 12 inches to 96 inches in diameter. If these are not purchased for official military or Federal Government use, we make similar non-official emblems for all 6 services. We have trademark licenses with the Army, Air Force, Space Force, Navy and Marine Corps and pay royalties to make their emblem plaques and other trademark plaque designs for commercial use.

Fig. 9 - This photo shows three security agency bronze-plated wall plaques carved in 3-D bas-relief from High-Density-Urethane. The artwork, border and text are polished, and the backgrounds have a dark bronze patina applied which is hand-rubbed into the art and border. The text below is made of individual carved HDU letters which are bronze-plated and polished. Both plaques and letters have imbedded studs which are epoxied into holes drilled in the blue board.

CONTENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PLAQUE PHOTO GALLERY

This Gallery contains 200 photos and designs of wall and podium plaques of the seals, emblems, logos, and crests of the Department of Defense, its agencies, and its support organizations. Over 1700 photos of plaques we have made for the six services are shown on five other webpages (USN, USMC, USAF/USSF, USA, and USCG) in this Military section. Military plaques for foreign nations, NATO, and the UN are shown on the Foreign Military Plaque page.

This photos of plaques in this Gallery is organized in the following sections, listed in order top to bottom on this page (click on gold underlined text link to go directly to that section or page):

DoD and Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) Seals - top of page, begins with photo IP-1000.
Sets of 5 Service Seals and Memorial Plaques- begins with IP-1159
Unified Combatant Commands - begins with IP-1348
Intelligence Agencies - begins with IP-1400
Support Agencies - begins with IP-1680
Operations Centers - begins with IP-1880

Please use the pull-down menu for plaque " TYPE " in the gold masthead above to go to the Federal Government plaque gallery or any of the 24 customer-oriented photo galleries of the 8000 photos of the plaques we have made.

Fig. 10 - This photo shows a 60 inch diameter plaques of the defense Intelligence Agency Seal/Emblem. .This plaque is carved in 3-D bas-relief and artist-painted in long-lasting sign enamels. It is clear-coated twice, and can be mounted either indoors or outdoors. We can make these round plaques up to 10 feet in diameter, or as small as 10 inches in diameter.

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 will be happy 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.

Fig. 11 - This photo shows the plaques of the seals of the five armed services which support the Indo-Pacific Unified Command .We carved these plaques in 3-D bas-relief

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 the 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, Regina or Liz, will be pleased to help you.