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Porsche Union Jack
Have done this design for a customer to have on his 996
He loves it……..
The car is already blue so he wants just the red and white to be applied. He doesn’t want any shadowing or gradients to the design, despite wanting a wavy effect flag. The car is going to be used for racing. The issue I’m now up against is how to go about applying it. Have now issues with the actual application as done plenty of wrap work.
What I’d like some input on is how to make up the layers……
Car being blue, do i apply white vinyl then red over the top (ensuring no hair line blue is seen) or do i print red onto white, laminate and cut away what i want shown as blue before application?
Decisions decisions……
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The red doesn’t touch the blue so put down a solid white stripe and then the red on top of the white. No alignment issues and even if you are slightly off it won’t be noticeable.
Simplessssss
cheers
Warren
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union jack on a german car? i dont understand some people. mind you ive seen it on a micra.:P
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Sort of down to you really James and how much time you have, printed would be quicker to apply as it would only be one application. Don’t know if you have your own printer but if you don’t then applying white with red on top would take longer but might be less for material costs if you have to buy print in.
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(Ben, I saw one of the micra’s you speak of. Was at a show I was at, needless to say I had a close look. Not a bad job. I believe they are done by DDI and you pay the dealer an extra £1000 at the show room to have one)
Back to the subject in hand. the other thought I had while driving home was (as not much blue will show) to wrap it all in white which would be a quick easy job, then add the blue and red after.
Think by putting each section on after I’d be in with a chance at getting the whole car to match and look like one flag (maybe) -
Sat at home still looking at design, should i apply white and red but with a slight overlap instead of the whole area of white with red over the top?…
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If the car is a dark blue then without the white backing the red might look very dark, depends on what material you intend to use to cover the car.
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Just found out that i have lost this job. Customer claims to of had a price that is half of what i quoted. I went in at what i believe to of been a good price using the right materials. It’s not a local company so not a direct competitor. I have my concerns that other company are not using the right material. Even after voicing these concerns to customer I’m still left without.
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annoying eh…never mind…try not to dwell and move onto the next one.
all the best
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Trouble is, you’ve already done the design, so no design work required from the other co.
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Sh*t happens James
Did you let the client have a print out?
and can I ask how much you quoted?Peter
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quote James Culpin:Have done this design for a customer to have on his 996
He loves it……..
The car is already blue so he wants just the red and white to be applied. He doesn’t want any shadowing or gradients to the design, despite wanting a wavy effect flag. The car is going to be used for racing. The issue I’m now up against is how to go about applying it. Have now issues with the actual application as done plenty of wrap work.
What I’d like some input on is how to make up the layers……
Car being blue, do i apply white vinyl then red over the top (ensuring no hair line blue is seen) or do i print red onto white, laminate and cut away what i want shown as blue before application?
Decisions decisions……hi
do you mind me asking what you program you use for designing vehicle wraps please? as we got the printer but not done a full wrap yet, but need to in the next few weeks
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You can use anything you like, most use Photoshop or Illustrator/Corel and whatever sign software they have.
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quote Jon Marshall:You can use anything you like, most use Photoshop or Illustrator/Corel and whatever sign software they have.
is there not a program that will take the 2D image of the jpeg and distort it fit the 3D contours of a vehicle please, as I’m using Flexi to design doing our van, but as we all know, the vans aren’t 5 flat side, it’s the areas like around the bumpers or front wings. i might be wrong but i thought i saw one being used on the tele 😳
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you can do it in photoshop, or photopaint, using a three quarter shot of the car as a visual, problem is vinyl is flat, and when doing a wrap will need to be stretch on areas like wing to bonnet so a visual is one thing, real life is another. yes there are a couple of 3d outline programs out there, but still you will not be able to get a perfect pattern match all round the car.
You need to take this into account at the design stagePeter
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quote Peter Normington:you can do it in photoshop, or photopaint, using a three quarter shot of the car as a visual, problem is vinyl is flat, and when doing a wrap will need to be stretch on areas like wing to bonnet so a visual is one thing, real life is another. yes there are a couple of 3d outline programs out there, but still you will not be able to get a perfect pattern match all round the car.
You need to take this into account at the design stagePeter
perfect, thank you Peter, i see what you’re saying now!
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Hi everyone – first time on here. mod-edit please read board rules
The Union Jack Micras – all 163 of them. We did pull mod-edit in to assist on installation though. We have wrapped many vehicles in Union Jack designs – from Smarts to
Vespas to Minis.
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