Vehicle Wrap – Dairy Van

[Shane Drew]

show off 😕

(well done but 😳 )

[Phil Halling]

Nice one Rob :thumbup2: , was it worth burning the midnight oil?

[Rod Gray]

Nice work m8.

[Joe McNamara]

Looks good mate, but how did you reach the high bits – Stilts? :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

cheers
Joe

[Phill Fenton]

Well done Rob. that must have been very difficult but looks excellent . Is the extra effort and expertise needed to do a wrap like this justified by the higher prices you are able to charge.

[valegraphics]

Another great job rob ! 😀 What vinyl did you use. Did you print in house?

How long was the job in total (design, print, fit)

Matt

[Mindaugas]

looks nice

good job Robert

[Marcella Ross]

Brilliant job Robert! :2thumbs:

[Lynn Normington]

good job Rob 😎
not keen on the green on the blue though

Lynn

[Peter Normington]

Rob, that looks good.
I know you were talking about going on a wrapping course, did you? or have you just put your acrude skills and tecniques to use.

Reason I ask is, are courses, worth the money? especially for an experienced fitter? Obviously you can only answer if you did a course.

Peter

[Andrew Boyle]

quote Robert Lambie:

it started as a white printer.

Excellent job Rob…

[if it’s a USB I’ll be interested if you’ve got any more] 😀

[Robert Lambie]

Thanks for the comments everyone… even yours Joe! 😉

Matt, the vinyl used was oracal digital wrap with equivalent in clear for lamination.
Yes, we did print & laminate in house. However, the design was done by a graphic design company and sent to us. only thing was, it didn’t fit by miles… so the bitmap had to be chopped and changed by us, which in my opinion made matters worse.
We were asked to do the job Wednesday afternoon, and to be complete Friday 5pm
So there was no time to waste…

Man hours, i recon it was about 24… That’s from print to lam to fitting.

As much as i like the design on the big box trucks, im not keen on this on the sprinter.
I personally blame the inexperience of the designers with regards to designing “vehicle graphics”, but that’s another story im sure many of us have come across over the years. that said, andrew has just printed another 6 trucks and ill be fitting them tomorrow to Friday, so ill show you this design then, i like it better.

Phill, i recon it is justified mate. But i think it comes down to the customer at the end of the day. Will he pay to have it wrapped right, at the right price? Or toddle off to the nearest cowboy to save a few quid. It’s back to how you value yourself… stick to your guns on price and get paid properly for a job well done. Or walk away.

Lynn, not too keen on the green myself, but it does work in the flesh… so to speak.

Peter, no mate… i haven’t gone on any courses yet. But i have just put my name down for one and i have two more i intend going on this year. (All going well)
My purpose on going on these courses is really only for the “badge/certified certificate”, but i do expect to pickup lots of good tips from these wrappers. After all, they are doing it day in, day out. I do also see it as the only way for me to improve what i already know after 15 years applying vinyl. At the end of the day, i run this site, give advice and bang on about this and that with regards to vinyl. In my position, i think it is my duty to have all the certificates available.
In all honesty, ill body swerve a full “van” wrap unless the money is right. But i have and done lots…. but never a “hackney cab”
To date, i have “part wrapped” hundreds of vehicles. We have a customer that has been getting the back and rear end of his vans wrapped in solid red for years now.
My first experience of using a “real” wrap vinyl was when mactac launched macfleet. “Now there is a bloody difficult material to work with”. But…. in my opinion, i don’t think i have used another that turns into almost “party balloon” elasticized rubber once heated. also… once it’s on, it’s staying there, and that’s what i like about it.
To be honest i have been using wrapping methods for around 9 years now. I can recall applying mactac 9800 to an old shape transit van. It was a graphic of a huge ladybird and i wrapped it over, oversized wheel arches and around the back using excessive heat and a rag… a bit like we do today. Funny thing was, i had used a 5-7 year calander vinyl and that van run around for years and never did it pull back.
Another good exercise for me was doing the telewest vans a few years back. We had 1600 to do, but in the end we did about 700… Again these were basic “part wraps” in and out of deep recesses and around back ends of vans using 3M controltac.
i recon when you do more and more big graphic applications over difficult vehicle recesses, then move onto part wraps, wings, rears, back sections… its only natural to move onto a full wrap when you feel confident enough.

[valegraphics]

Thanks for the lengthy reply Rob. 🙂

Matt

[Andy Gorman]

Looks smart matey. A good modernisation of the old style livery you’ve shown us before.

[Andrew Boyle]

How did you find the Oracle material performed compared to other material used?.

Cheers

[Robert Lambie]

i actually liked it andrew, this is not the first job i have done with it. i did a part wrap a few weeks ago too… printed/laminated etc
i found it went down well and had a nice glossy finish.
something i liked about it that i also found with graityps grafiwrap, was that it needed very little heating. it was pretty easy to just lift and pull the vinyl into the form of vehicles body. i used a gentle heat on the corners of the van only and the normal heavy heating on the recessed areas using a laser temp guage.
to be honest i hated being against a clock fitting this, although i went through the proper motions, everything was rushed because of time scale. ide like to have had a bit of a play around with it more and took my time.

[Dennis Van Der Lingen]

really well done rob, looks nice, more than nice actually.

timescale is always an issue, i don’t know how i’ts in the uk but here on the continent everything has to be done yesterday. last week i had someone call me for labels 150 metres(yards) on the edge, 4 colours,
he called me around 19:30h in the evening asking if could give him the order at 13:00 h the next day.

did it thow, costed me 5 years of my life to get it done in time
but i mean come on, sometimes the timescales we get is rediculous.

especially with larger campaignes and stuff, they go threw months of meetings and meeting some more and when the job is sent to us it has to be done with in a week.

[Sign Age]

great job rob!

Where actually do you recommend going for the wrapping course for the "badges/certification". I have been searching for a looooong time for such courses but doubt i found any.

Maybe someone from Australia is also able to recommend as I reckon, the flying distance will be shorter from where I am.

cheers..

[Chris Lambe]

Nice job i use the same oracal vinyl and it works a treat very good to work with well done 😉