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Vehicle Graphics: J Coulton gardening
hey oop,
did this today, nowt special in terms of design (fonts were customers choices), but a challenge none the less !
LG 7yr black, with coburn 5yr exterior polished silver (chrome) on top, the chrome vinyl wasn’t anywhere near as bad to work with as i’d expected, though it does want to be weeded immediately to prevent the adhesive seemingly bleeding back together !
did the test cuts and all seemed fine, even discovered that the chrome backing paper was thin enough to see through when layed ontop of the black on the bench, so no need for reg’ marks to go wrong etc, or so i thought !
windy as hell today, gusting to 40mph at times !! but i persisted, caused a few near catastrophies and a few bubbles, but got all the background on eventually.
then the oh so simple job of laying the chrome ontop, hinging and laying, simple, laid it over the black………. bugger !!! no see thru on a dark van !! down to the workshop to initially trim around the taller and end letters to centre up, but this was taking far too long, customer needed to be away by 5 !
so into the workshop again to do the unthinkable (sorry rob). i did some test cuts and tried applying it wet onto vinyl, and it worked a treat,
i was of course a little concerned about using water and a metal film not breathing, but the results were good, so ultimately, with the exception of the bonnet, the chrome was all put on (at the customers request) wet, word by word due to the rediculous windy conditions !!
the result is a few sections of slightly off centre chrome text, a windswept and somehow sunburned Hugh, and an extremely happy customer !!!
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good work hugh,
i got a job to do soon using the silver, personally i hate the stuff but the public seem to love it,
keep it up pal
roffs
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thanks Roy,
I’ll be more prepared for it next time !!! it’s all experience hey ! I was thinking of using the extra (emergency) supply to do my own trooper, but i’m not so sure i want to promote the stuff !!
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good work Hugh the crome is not bad to work with on flat panels 🙄
Lynn
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it was quite a well behaved material, but even done wet, it did grab to quick at times (hence a couple of off centre bits), it doesnt like heat i noticed ! warmed an edge to fold it around a door edge and it wrinkled real quick, saved it but went more careful from there on in !
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hi mate the job looks great
using the chrome vinyl before i have never applied wet due to the adhesive beign water based i guess this was not case with the make you used i will have to look in to another makeps i was working outside too today fitting a van like yours lots of text with a yellow drop shadow i was up against wind rain sun shine and working with my back to the road
dont we just love it !!!
still im in my workshop all day tomorrow love itrich
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lol, i guess i should check if it was water based adhesive, it seemed to be very tacky and rolled up / smudged when i went to rub off a bit that was on the outside, lets hope i squeegee’d it well enough if it is water based 😳
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mate lets hope so !
it normally goes a creamy off white colour if it water based so you should be fine
rich
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