bus wrapping: on the road

[Simon Kay]

phar out phil that’s pretty awsome.

How long’s it going to take all up do you reckon.

And how the hell do you start something like that? Is it a matter of picking a panel and just starting and everything else falls into place?

Awsome. 😀

[Phil Halling]

Hi,
four of us completed that job at 11.45pm last night, we started about 10am.
As for where to start this one was a bit tricky as we had stripes running round all 4 corners, so we started on the back end and worked forward down both sides knowing that if we ran marginly out of line we could always juggle the front cos we had to cut a big chunk out where the windscreen is. Phil

[Lynn Normington]

Phil do you do all the graphics your self or have to trust some one else has got it right ? 😛

Lynn

[Simon Clayton]

Wow, thats a lot of wrap, looking good…. is that what the caravans for?? shift work lol

Simon

[Phil Halling]

Hi lynn,

The designs are usually by a design agency but as regards to sizing & printing & tiling etc., to make sure everything works together we usually take the design to pieces as much as we can and then rebuild it, designers are ok but I do wonder if they have ever seen a bus, lorry or van closer than 30′ away or on a comp screen. It’s one thing to design a wrap on a 2d screen but it’s a completly different ball game to get it to work on a 3d vehicle.

Phil

[Paul Franklin]

Hi Phil, great to see another post of one of your bus wraps, especially one in progress. Still haven’t been afforded the opportunity to do one ourselves yet. However your comment about designers having never looked at a bus closely struck a chord as I was looking at a few while on a job in central London the other day and thought to myself, look how many panels are on this double decker and how shoddy all the rivetting together of all these panels are. Do all these rivets and badly fitting panels cause a lot of hassle? Do you just vinyl over the top of them and just apply a lot of heat to contract the vinyl over them? Please tell, I would really like to hear about some of the more difficult aspects of this work.

[Phil Halling]

Hi Baship,
Yes your quite right on these promotional bus wraps – which you have to remember they only have to look good for about three months average- we just stretch over and blow in, on longer term buses we’d slit down each panel join as well. the other point on a longer term wrap is that we would use a better quality material.
two big hassles with this type of work
1 EVERYTHING is last minute, we got final artwork for the next bbc bus 4pm yesterday – has to be on the road first thing monday – no panic there then.
2 finding somewhere to physically get the vehicle inside / undercover,
we’ve done the last 2 or 3 in a barn of all places, all straw & dust just as all the manufacturers recommend.
Phil

[mick pett]

You sound like you know what you are doing Phil.

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