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  • Looking for a supplier of Vehicle decal templates

    Posted by Karen McGinty on 17 September 2013 at 11:25

    Hello All

    I have a regular customer who is always looking for new decals for his little Chevy Spark. So far I have managed to design what he wants using Impact as all of the stickers he wanted have been for the exterior of the car, but now he has found some decals from outside the UK for on the dash of his car which involve a lot of contour cutting and I was wondering if anyone knows of any supplier of decal templates for the interiors of different makes of car. (if such a thing exists!!)

    Your hopefully

    K x x

    Lee Atkinson replied 11 years, 2 months ago 7 Members · 13 Replies
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  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    17 September 2013 at 14:06

    I doub’t you’ll find anything with interior designs on it, maybe in manufacturers brochures but I doubt anything will have scale on it.

    in cases like this, particularly where its distance selling, I get the customer to supply their own sizes required as we can’t simply guess this stuff!

  • Karen McGinty

    Member
    17 September 2013 at 19:41

    Thanks Hugh! That is what I thought I would need to do, but wanted to be double sure!

    K x

  • Vic Adair

    Member
    19 September 2013 at 13:30

    Hi Karen,

    you could mask the area and trace it out then scan or photograph it and put it into your sign program and size

  • Karen McGinty

    Member
    19 September 2013 at 13:43

    Good idea Vic! Did the same thing when I was asked to replicate a caravan decal to replace one that had faded! It actually worked quite well (despite the fact I used baking parchment rather than tracing paper! -typical woman!!!) didn’t think of doing it for this!

    I’ll give it a bash!

    What’s the worst that can happen?

    Many thanks!

    K x

  • Vic Adair

    Member
    20 September 2013 at 11:12

    Use Application tape rather than tracing paper or baking parchment 🙂

  • Tracey Vaughan

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 13:32

    Hi Karen
    i have a stock of caravan /motorhome decals send a photo to me and i will try to match the decal and send you image to my stock, hope this helps Tracey 😀

  • Karen McGinty

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 18:38

    Hi Tracey. Can’t work out how to send to you directly, but have attached the pics that the cust has given me of someone else’s car. It’s key that I get them the right size and shape so that they stick on the smooth parts if the dash.

    K x x


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  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 22:10

    Forgive me if I’m missing something hugely obvious here but could they not be done by making a template in apllication tape or wide masking tape? Run it between the two end points and then either draw a shape onto it or mark measurements on it and then carefully take it off lay it flat and photograph it, scale photo up in Corel and make the curves and cut.
    Sounds complicated but very easy to do.

  • Karen McGinty

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 22:27

    Hi Harry. The issue I had was not having access to the car to make up a template like that, but have now arranged for Customer to bring vehicle through and let me have some time to do this. I’ll post the results when all done. He’s not available for another few weeks though!

    Thanks everyone for all your help!

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 22:35

    That’s the huge thing I was missing then….the car! 😀

  • Karen McGinty

    Member
    24 September 2013 at 22:45

    Tee hee! It can be easy to miss!! 😉

  • Deleted User

    Deleted User
    12 August 2014 at 18:58
    quote Tracey Vaughan:

    Hi Karen
    i have a stock of caravan /motorhome decals send a photo to me and i will try to match the decal and send you image to my stock, hope this helps Tracey 😀

    Hi Tracey Vaughan,
    I’m new on here and seen this quote you made. I’m just wondering if i could ask you for a little help,
    I’m in the process of ordering a bronze package which i hope will allow me to ask you lol… as i say new on this here 🙂
    Thanks, have a lovely evening

  • Lee Atkinson

    Member
    12 October 2014 at 22:15

    Hello Tracey Vaughan,
    I’m wondering if you could get it touch regarding the caravan decals,
    Thanks, have a great evening

    quote Tracey Vaughan:

    Hi Karen
    i have a stock of caravan /motorhome decals send a photo to me and i will try to match the decal and send you image to my stock, hope this helps Tracey 😀

    (hot)

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