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    Posted by Ian Higgins on May 29, 2004 at 5:39 pm

    Have somehow ended up doing a few Ice Cream vans over the Years…..Don’t get paid much for doing them though.. they belong to the Mrs…


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    Ian Higgins replied 19 years, 12 months ago 4 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Carrie Brown

    Member
    May 29, 2004 at 8:11 pm

    Is it invisible so the young ones cant see it????? Some sort of new thingy? 😆 😆 Look forward to seeing it when its posted 😀

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    May 30, 2004 at 9:53 am

    image now loaded… as follows 😉

  • Ian Higgins

    Member
    May 31, 2004 at 4:08 pm

    Thanks for loading that for me Robert.. will get the hang of it soon 😀

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    May 31, 2004 at 4:29 pm

    really nice work mate.. meant to say. 😳
    i take it you must get lots of this kind of work if your mrs is in this game?
    which can only be good 😉
    how long would a van like this take to paint? (assuming its paint that is)

  • Carrie Brown

    Member
    May 31, 2004 at 4:34 pm

    They look great Ian!!! 😀

    I was wondering the same as Rob … are they painted???

    Carrie 😀

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    May 31, 2004 at 4:42 pm

    I like em Ian!
    I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
    They do look to be painted, at least the pictorials….
    nice work!
    Darn it now you got me craving a Peanut Buster Parfait.
    Love…Jill 😉

  • Ian Higgins

    Member
    May 31, 2004 at 8:40 pm

    Thanks for the comments folks,

    95% is vinyl, the swirls on the Noddy van and a few higlights are done with paint and airbrush.. Despite 100s of attempts just cant get good swirls out of vinyl.

    The cartoons are all done in vinyl, I have asked rob to post a pic of my sign lab screen showing everything ready to cut for our latest van.

    I was really good at jigsaws as a kid 😆
    A typical Yorkshire man .. don’t cut by colour, cram as much into a small as you can to save a few pence on vinyl… never mind the fact it takes 10 times longer to lay up!!!!

    On some of the vans I do sometimes paint on the background colour if it is large area as I haven’t got the hang of wrapping yet.

    As far as time goes, it takes about 2 hours to design and sort out cartoons etc. It takes about 4 hours weeding and cutting then about 6 to 8 hours to fit.

    I usually charge between £380 and £700 per van depending on how much they want on them.

    I charge the Mrs Tripple 😀 😀 😀 😀

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