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my reviews after attending two wrapping courses
Wasn’t sure if this should go in the vinyl forum or in here.
I attended the Mactac certified training course last week and a shorter Avery one today. Basically the Mactac was a two day course and went into more depth about vehicle wrapping, design considerations, application considerations etc. The course was also run by an independent installer so wasn’t just a Mactac rep trying to sell us products. The Avery was a short one day course going over their cast range and we had a bit of a play with their Avery 900 and MPI 1000 series the 1500 and 1500EZ RS.
The Mactac course was excellent. I attended the wrapping seminars at the Visual Impact Expo and these basically carried on from there. We went into detail how casts and calendered vinyls are produced and the different in the plasticisers in polymeric and monomeric calendared films. We went over the application techniques for different areas of the car and so forth. We then spend the rest of the day applying to vehicles. Good to play with vinyl you aren’t paying for 🙂
The second day covered most designing a vehicle wrap and considerations needed to be given. We saw many examples of where it went right and wrong. We then spent most of the afternoon practicing these examples of how to line up panels etc.
The Avery course was a bit of a product sell but in a subtle fashion. They covered the application techniques well and the processes needed to be taken to complete a vehicle wrap. I guess having attended the Mactac course I already had a lot of information which I could use in this course. The Avery trainer is actually pretty good. Wasn’t just a sales rep showing us the bubble free range.
Sorry about the pics I didn’t take my digital camera so used my phone to take these. I got one Avery pic of me with the side of the car. This was nearly finished I still had to cut the plastic on one of the doors as you can see and a relief cut in one of the door handles. This was done with Avery 1005EZ and it’s like magic. We also used the MPI 1005 which doesn’t have those air regression channels.
In the Mactac pics you’ll see the JT5529BF and the JT5529. Both the Avery and Mactac bubble free were both as easy to work with. Mind you I have never completed a full wrap before. We did the side of that holden in about 30 minutes with about 20 mins for detailing and cutting.
PS I am not a professional MODEL 😀
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Greetings from Singapore,
Hi bro, i m looking forward to take up vehicle wrap training.
Thank you for providing some infos on it.
Keep up the good job.Cheers,
Razak
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Jason
Thank you for taking the time to post this, I would like to do a course myself one day.
Graham -
G’d mate
Oh thats great!….i volunteer to become your first traineee then, whats
the fees like?..lol.
You have any idea any training classes going on in Australia rite now? -
Great post Jason, thanks for sharing 😀
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No worries guys. Thought it might provide an insight onto what went on in these particular sessions. I really think the value even if you haven’t started doing wraps or using this type of material is you get to play with more material then the cost of the course. So you can make some large errors during the training without thinking ARGH I’ve blown $200 on materials.
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