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Vehicle Graphics : Police car
Having registered a few months ago now, I thought it was about time I posted something of mine. I don’t do Police work any more but here’s one I prepared earlier. Hi conspicuity film (Nikkalite I think?) onto a silver MG strange choice of colour for a Police car.
I must say, it wasn’t particularly exciting making these day in day out!
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Not that strange bigG.
They will get a lot more money when they come to sell it than they would for a white one.
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…sweet!
I’m presuming someone does all the preparatory digitising and trial and error stuff – so as to get all the pieces into kit form – so they can then be mass produced to fit that model…or are they done on a one-off basis?
…and did you provide the police badges for each force or do they arrange them seperately?
mikethsign
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First I would place acetate on the car which is then used to trace the panels. This is then digitised on a BIG digitiser (48 x 36 inch) sectioned up into a battenburg pattern and finally cut on a flat bed, edge sealing plotter. Before the cutting stage we might cut it from dutch grey board to check on the vehicle, but only if it was particularly curvy bodywork.
We did one offs, this MG was, as well a larger quantites. A lot of time went into making these kits but of course, once it was digitised a popular model like a mondeo would be used over and over again. Until of course, they make a minor bodywork change to call it the NEW 2002 model etc 😕
Force badges were usually bought in stock quantities from time to time. Lettering was part of each kit.
(I wonder how Graphicraft are getting on with our old edge sealing plotter, it could be a bit of a bugger to operate)
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Hi Big G
Like Mike I wondered how you got those shapes to fit the contours just right.
It looks really cool!It would be great to get an order for a fleet of police vehicles!
Did you cop the lot? 😀John
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We were sole suppliers to about 6-7 forces and were making inroads into others when the company went ***’s up. We did do large orders, especially at the beginning of the financial year when budgets were allocated. These battenburgs were very expensive, the one in the picture is probably 500-600 quid, but there is a lot of cost in the material – have you ever bought diamond grade for example?
Most sign co’s couldn’t make these kits as the material has to be edge sealed after cutting and we had a plotter that we developed for doing this.
“cop the lot” I’ve just got that, silly sod. 😉
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You’ll get used to John he used to work for the Sun. 😆 😆
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