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    Posted by Shane Drew on August 29, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Here is another wrap done last week. 15 hours driving to the job (1200klm’s), 4 days fitting, and 15 hours back home.

    3M material on the bus, ‘legal’ one way vision on the windows.

    All done dry.

    Design was by a graphic artist who had never designed a wrap before. A few minor mistakes, mainly with the layout, but we managed to correct those on the fly.

    Client was well pleased, and have already nominated us to wrap another 2 buses next year.


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    Stephen Morriss replied 12 years, 8 months ago 14 Members · 15 Replies
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  • Martin Cole

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    Top Notch work again Shane, well done my friend.

    The layout is very good, very effective.

    I hope you get to have a lay in at the weekends 😉

  • Mo Gillis-Coates

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 3:24 pm

    Nice……. always a pleasure to see your work Shane… what width is that lot printed at?

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    great work Shane as always mate, very nice design and works well on the coach. far too many dodgy wraps going around these days. nice one mate.

    thank you for taking the time to post your work.

  • Neil Davey

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Great job Shane………you’re getting pretty good at those bus wraps and driving long distances 😀

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    I like the layout too and I’m usually pretty picky.
    Glad to see you are getting so much work, Shane!
    Love….Jill

  • Karl Williams

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    Great work once again mate. Well done. 😉

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    August 29, 2011 at 11:29 pm

    Nice work as always Shane but 4 days to wrap ?? The number of buses you’ve done now I would have thought you would have got it down to a couple of hours by now :lol1: :lol1:

    with a bit of luck your boy will be driving by the time you get to wrap the next 2 for them which will help with the travelling.

  • Mo Gillis-Coates

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 6:37 am
    quote Martin:

    Nice work as always Shane but 4 days to wrap ?? The number of buses you’ve done now I would have thought you would have got it down to a couple of hours by now :lol1: :lol1:.

    He probably took a few days out for R&R in the middle Martin 😉

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Thanks friends…. I seem to have found niche market, purely by accident. All I seem to do is Trucks and Buses now.

    Mo, I use the horizontal panels to hide the long joins in the panel joins. I lay horizontal, not vertical as a result. On this 12m long bus, we did each panel 3m long x the height of the panel, so the windows were 4 @ 1100mm high x 3m, the panel under was 4 @ 900mm x 3m, the roof was 4 @ 300mm x 3m (combined on the one print) and the bin doors were 4 @ 1250mm x 3m panels.

    No time to rest when I got back sadly. While I was away, I won tenders for 250 temporary signs, 3 commercial vehicles, and 200 small dibond signs for a factory. I’ve got more buses for signage in September.

    Martin, my son doesn’t get his license till May next year, but I am really looking forward to that as just having another driver doing the long trips will take the load off me so at least I can rest.

    We have just had a spate of big sign shops go under here in the last few months, as well as our local mactac distributor, so there are a few worried sign shops at the moment. Some report no work, others like myself are doing OK, but I’m not taking anything for granted at the moment.

    Thanks again for your comments friends, I appreciate it coming from my peers.

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 10:56 am

    Super work Shane! I wouldn’t know where to start on something like that. 😀

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 11:17 am

    Lovely work Shane….please make sure you are booking in some big holiday for next year….book now so you cant get out of it!!!

  • Neil Speirs

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Sounds like your gonna be busy Shane…..u looking for a trainee 😉

    Nice work yet again :thumbsup:

  • John Bruce

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    Looks awesome Shane!

  • Brian Little

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    ah yeh shane mate glad you took my advice 😀 :lol1: :lol1:

  • Stephen Morriss

    Member
    August 30, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    Looks nice Shane, not sure we have any were in this country that would take 15 hours to get too. Other than using the M25 that is 😉

    Steve

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