TRPHY
How it works

From a GPS track to something on a shelf.

The disc

Your route is centred on a 150 mm circle and everything within it is drawn from real map data. Roads, rivers and parkland are cut into the plate, the way an engraving is; buildings, landmarks and terrain stand off it. The route itself sits above both, so it reads at a glance from across a room.

It is printed in 0.2 mm layers on a four-colour machine, and every horizontal surface in the model lands exactly on a layer boundary. That is why the colours are crisp instead of banded.

The three kinds

City is for a course that fits inside one place - a marathon, a half, a city ride. You get the street network at a density chosen to suit that particular city, the water, the parks, and up to fifteen landmarks modelled as architecture rather than dropped in as icons.

Terrain is for a day that crosses country. Too wide for streets, so the land becomes the subject: grass, hills, mountains and snow, each on its own layer, with the roads and rivers still cut into the plate underneath.

Trek is for a mountain. Short distance, enormous vertical - so the relief is drawn at close to true scale, and from the side it looks like what you climbed.

The Record

The sheet is drawn as vector artwork at exact millimetres, with a hole in it the precise diameter of the printed disc. Your event, name, time and date are set into it, and the faint contour lines behind the type are your own route, not a texture.

The disc is mounted into that hole by hand.

The frame

The mounted Record is fitted into an A4 wood frame, which is what turns three parts into one object. It hangs on a wall or stands on a shelf, and there is nothing to assemble - the framing is done here.

What you get

The finished trophy, framed and ready to hang. Before we print it you get a proof: the Record exactly as it will be printed, with the model shown in place. Check the spelling of the name on it - that is what it is for.