Venturing into Vehicle Wrapping, advice needed?

[Dan Osterbery]

first step for me, would be do the course! Then you know if your skills are up to it! You will learn new tricks as well.

Good luck

Dan

[Brenton Ford]

Cheers Dan, I have looked at a few different courses. Could you recommend a good one?

Cheers

Brent

[Dan Osterbery]

we did ours in spain with James Deacon, it was very good! I dont know who does them in the UK, Im sure all the main suppliers will. The UKSB also do one, give Rob a call!

Cheers
Dan

[John McCrorie]

I’m going to the 2 day course at start of april that grafityp run, then after that I’m planning to do the course that rob runs when it comes to Glasgow/edinburgh again, even if I never do car wrapping I am sure I will pick up a few useful tips, as its over 25yrs since I attended a sign work course at the local college, and things have come a long way since then, applications, materials etc

[Robert Lambie]

quote Dan Osterbery:

we did ours in spain with James Deacon, it was very good! I dont know who does them in the UK, Im sure all the main suppliers will. The UKSB also do one, give Rob a call!

Cheers
Dan

thanks Dan…
all info can be found on our training website http://www.uksgtraining.com
we tour the UK training twice per year between February and November.

[Ghais Din]

I would say buy some wrapping vinyl, such as kpmf, its alot cheaper then 3m or avery, try wrapping some panels, from therir you shoudl go to these sign shows such as the uk sign and digital which is coming up in a month and watch the professional wrap a car, then buy some more material and wrap your own car, this would be great for marketing, by now you will most likely know if you got the skill,

this is our i started off, havent been to a course yet, but will likely go to the uksignboard course or 3m or avery, sometime in the future

[Martin Pearson]

quote Ghais Din:

I would say buy some wrapping vinyl, such as kpmf, its alot cheaper then 3m or avery, try wrapping some panels, from therir you shoudl go to these sign shows such as the uk sign and digital which is coming up in a month and watch the professional wrap a car, then buy some more material and wrap your own car, this would be great for marketing, by now you will most likely know if you got the skill,

this is our i started off, havent been to a course yet, but will likely go to the uksignboard course or 3m or avery, sometime in the future

Funnily enough Ghais I would say to do the complete opposite lol, realise everyone is different but I would advise going on a course first, techniques are different to applying polymeric to flat panels & when I first had a go myself many years ago I was way to cautious not realising how the material performed.
Avery & 3m materials as they are now didn’t exist & I did the KPMF course at Hexis which was really just an introduction to the material.
KPMF may be cheaper but it’s not a great film to learn with if you don’t have any experience of wrapping, I take my hat off to you if that’s what you did because if I were to be starting out today I would want to make things as easy as possible for myself to start with lol.

[Ghais Din]

best to start at the deep end

[Martin Pearson]

Sink or swim eh, problem with that is with my luck I would sink :lol1: :lol1:

[Ghais Din]

I cant swim, lol

[Robert Lambie]

I have to agree with Martin on this Ghais, I think you have it vice versa there mate.
dont start out practising something you don’t know anything about. using cheap media or not, you will go through tons of it and will add up fast.
You are also damaging your reputation from the start because you will be using live paying customers as your guinea pig.

practice makes perfect yes! but practising the wrong methods just makes changing to another application method much more difficult. i say that because we train new comers and they always master the techniques easier than the sign makers with years under their belt because they have many bad habits to break.

learn and understand the fundamentals of the wrapping process and techniques from professionals. understand the different types of media available and their limits, then go out and practice practice practice…

[Simon Worrall]

Brenton I would like to add that wrapping a car is quite a workout, so keeping fit has to be up there on your list!

[David Mitchell]

i kinda done what ghias done, never having wrapped a thing in my life i thought d experiment with kpmf matt orange and wrapped my bmw e46. as it was my own car i had nothing to loose. parts of it came out pretty well but ive recently removed it, was more the finishing of it i struggled with but thats i guess where the course would come in ?

anyway im gonna paint it in a few weeks time as removing the wrap caused mega laquer peel, probably due to the age of the car though more than the wrap.

[Ghais Din]

Well it really depends on how people learn,

Its worked for me and ive learned everything myself, watched many professionals wrap at many open days and shows, and asked many professionals questions on certain things I havent been sure on, and also used loads of different vinyl from different manufactures.

However I do like to go to a course to learn the more advanced techniques, but most courses out there are very basic, and also would like to be accredited this then brings me to uksg courses because they do an advanced course and an accreditation test,

Rob ive got a question for you, what does the advanced wrapping course involve compared to the standard wrapping course

[Brenton Ford]

Thanks for the advice guys