Researching Service Records
Australian Service Records – 2020 update Currently the best place to start researching Australian military service information for all Australian services and conflicts is the Australian War Memorial site where you can search by the …
After 32 years in Bentleigh, Fastframe has moved to Cheltenham
The owners of Fastframe, are siblings, Sami and Odette. They both had successful corporate careers, however they had a love of art and wanted to follow their dreams. So they looked around for a business that would allow them work with art, use modern …
A Tale of Two Brothers
In World War II, two brothers joined the AIF and were both sent to Papua New Guinea. One perished on a POW troop ship, the worst maritime disaster in Australian history, the other returned to Australia and spent his life working for the benefit of …
A Jockey’s Life
Over the years, we have had many customers that have collections of sporting memorabilia that they want to update. An interesting example was a customer whose father was a jockey. The customer had a number of framed pictures of her father that were …
East Brighton Football Club
To celebrate the opening of the new East Brighton Football Club clubrooms, Fastframe was asked to restore, reprint and frame eight of the clubs premiership team photographs. These team photographs can be purchased by EBFC members from Fastframe, a 15 …
How to display Military Medals four ways !
The framing of a families military medals, photos and memorabilia is a very personal and depends on what material is available, preferred size and style. The following are examples of how we can frame military medals to suit different customer …
The Fastframe Restoration Method
The following is an example of how Fastframe Cheltenham can add an extra dimension to image restoration. The original image had missing pieces, discolouration due the use of acidic tape on the back, spotting, fading and ageing. While Standard …
Father and Mother Service Tribute
A customer asked Fastframe to update the framing of her father’s medals. He was a Band Sergeant Major in the Scots Guards who was awarded the B.E.M. (British Empire Medal). Unfortunately, the medals were in poor condition, so we asked David Hirsh our …
Tribute to a WWI hero
Following the centenary of the First World War, my husband has been researching our relatives who had fought in the Great War. In the past, access to material from 1914 to 1919 has been limited to family records, however the internet has opened a lot …
How to preserve, frame and share your family heritage
At Fastframe we are often asked how we can help preserve and share family heritage items with different family members. A good example is my husbands old family home Certificate of Title. As several family members wanted a copy of the certificate, we …
Photo Restoration – Heavy
Continuing our series on photo restoration, light restoration and medium restoration, our last example is when ‘heavy’ restoration work is required. Fastframe have been doing photo restoration for many years. Along with our own skills …
Photo Restoration – Medium
Continuing with our recent series of posts about photo restoration, we have an example of ‘medium’ photo restoration. All these photo’s were for the same customer and all required varying degrees of restoration. When looked at a …
Photo Restoration – Light
Photo restoration is an exciting part of our work, we’ve posted some examples here. To expand on what’s involved in photo restoration, we will show some examples of ‘light’, ‘medium’ and ‘heavy’ …
Converting Photos to Digital Images
Since the introduction of digital cameras and smart phones, many customers are bringing in their digital images for restoration, printing and framing. This process is straight forward as all the customer has to do is either upload the images to our …
How we framed a warped and twisted cross stitch
Over the years we’ve framed countless cross stitches and embroideries. But this one was in particularly bad shape. The owner was desperate, she’d been unable to find anyone willing to take on this complicated job. We thought we could not …
Birthday Party Signing Boards
“Signing boards are now a rite of passage for the young. Bar and Bat mitzvah’s, 18th’s and 21st’s. But they shouldn’t just be wasted on the young. One of the Fastframe owners (Sami) celebrated his 60th Birthday a few …
Framing Military Medals
“Framing Military Medals has become a passion of ours. The framing of military medals and the accompanying photographs and memorabilia tells a story about the recipient and their time in history. We pride ourselves on our attention to detail …
Tickets from the 2012 Olympics
“Framing memorabilia and tickets from a concert or sporting event is something that we’re seeing more and more customers wanting to do. Custom framing allows you to capture the moment so that you can relive it whenever you see the frame …
Small South African Canvas
A long term customer of Fastframe was transferred to England for the past 9 years and only just returned a week ago, and one of her first stops was to come back to Fastframe. Whilst away she bought some South African canvas, unfortunately the canvas …
Paintings from France
Have you ever been on holidays and bought a painting from a local market to remind yourself of the good times you had? If so, bring that painting down to Fastframe and we’ll make it look like a masterpiece! Take as an example these pretty …
Bringing the Elephants to life
Sometimes we get unusual objects to frame. Take the case of this plaster Elephant freeze; it’s quite small at only 5 x 15 cm. As the freeze is quite intricate we wanted to draw the viewer into the artwork whilst creating a statement …