Two more ideas for PSA

I wanted to explore other options for my edgy, in-your-face, PSA poster on Texting and Driving.  These are two other concepts I have come up with...Any and all feedback is welcome!  My original poster is posted on a previous post....so please compare!

Legs

The legs/cradle of the bench are now done and the finish has been removed.  After looking at it together (to mark the holes) I'm thinking that I should just leave it natural and not do any faux rusting....any thoughts?

PSA take 2!

Frankie told me that the letters were hard to read as they were.  So I changed the fill color...how does this look?

PSA as it is today...

I really do want comments about this poster.  So please let me know your thought about it.

Contracting out welding jobs...

So for this bench I decided to use metal for the legs and as a band around the base. Fortunately for me I have a welder at my disposal (the person and the machine)!  So the leg portion of the bench is going great guns!  There has been one setback (but nothing huge) the legs need to be tack welded in place (as in on the bench) so there is a small burn in each corner...as i said, not a biggie!  I can just sand the corners and re-stain them...

After measuring and cutting the pieces with the grinder it my welder laid the pieces out on the actual bench to ensure an exact fit!  The next step is to spot weld it in place, then remove and lay down the actual welds.

And it's STAINED!

View of the "front" stained.  The stain was not as dark as I expected, probably because the wood is pine, and stains are always lighter on pine than on other woods.  But I like it, the front did some weird things, there are white places around the once dark spots.  I'm going to leave them, and just put the gloss coat on.  It ads a certain old-world or worn charm.

The inside of the bench stained a lot differently than the outside did...very interesting...gonna leave it as is...

Bench Progress

After three rounds of stripping, and one "swipe" with the sander using 60 grit...I still need to make a "pass" using 80, 100 then 220 grits before I can stain!  Hope to get this done tonight (sanded and stained that is!)

Front of the bench  There are still some dark spots from the previous stain, but I am down to needing a 220 grit sanding...I am planning on leaving it dark in those spaces so it stands out once I stain it dark.