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Capital One Cup – Coach Graphics
Hi All
Thought I’d share what’s been keeping us busy over the last 2-weeks.
We had 2 full coach wraps and 48 more with one way vision film to the sides and rear glass. Half for the Bradford fans and half for Swansea.
Nearly 1500m’s length of vinyl. 2-printers running 24 hours a day for 6-days. Something like 50-60 ink carts.
Then fitted over a 6 day window, mostly overnight, in Swansea, Cardiff, Weston Super Mare, Bradford, Wetherby, Northallerton, Stockton-on-Tees, Whitby. Each wrap window was 8-hours (hence the cut outs etc.)
Coaches breaking down, not turning up, always late, freezing temperatures all the time, operators truck brush washing the vehicles 5 minutes after applying the vinyl!! Last coach finished 30 minutes before setting off to Bradford City.
Felt sorry for the Bradford fans – so cheerful on the way down as I followed their convoy half the way – no idea what they felt like on the way back.
Cheers
Macky
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I can’t imagine the stress factor in doing all of this on time
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excellent work john, nice one mate.
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great job done, another one for the portfolio 😀
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quote Robert Lambie:excellent work john, nice one mate.
and thank you for taking the time to load your work.John?
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What vinyl did you use? I’m guessing something short term?
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Great job there David, i was at Wembley and followed them all the way, shame all that good work was only temporary and got to come off, and i’ve got to say the Bradford ones were the best 🙂
Great Job.
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Thanks for the comments
Yes it was a tight schedule and it did cause a fair bit of stress!
Don’t laugh but we used md3r for the full wraps, it took less than 2-hours to strip each one and no heat required and not the slightest trace of any glue. A careful combination of large overlap joins in the opposite direction of the headwind plus extra strips of clear vinyl to prevent any lifting of the edges, tight curves were done by cutting segments into the vinyl (like looking at a Terry’s chocolate orange ) – using this vinyl the trick is keeping it on the bus!. This was for a wrap that was on the road for a total of 8 hours, over the top of existing graphics that couldn’t be damaged – it looked really good but if it was needed on for more than a week it wouldn’t have worked with this material. The one way vision was from all print – went through the HP latex really well, can’t remember the part code but we had a full pallet of the stuff.
Not sure if they will sponsor another convoy next year but I hope it’s Preston v. Blackburn in the final so we don’t have to do so many miles! Due to the coach companies messing us around and having to keep re-visiting sites we must have done 1000 miles more than originally scheduled.
Cheers
Macky
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