Just finished

[Flubber]

The bus was fineshed about an hour ago and the truck was done yesterday.

 

[Gino]

 

[Sign_Boy]

Looks good - but I would have kerned the phone number a bit and probably moved it away from the door handle a little.
Did you design them?

 

[Flubber]

the bus yes but on the truck the customer had someone design it and he brought us the file but i had to go in and do a contour cut around it. He wouldnt let us change anything on the design "he loved it" oh well customer gets what they want i guess, no matter what my opinion is sometimes.

 

[Sign_Boy]

Still looks great!!! - Both of them!!

 

[Flubber]

forgot to add....I installed them both the truck was cake but that dang bus, jeez!!!!!

 

[Sign_Boy]

Did you do the bus solo? If so you CRAZY!!!

 

[Flubber]

the only help i had was my boss helping me put up the pattern which was the lenght of the freaking bus but other than that it was all me.

 

[Sign_Boy]

Pattern? Was this vinyl or paint?

 

[Flubber]

Vinyl....This was my first one to do but my boss had done 4 prior to this one.

 

[Sign_Boy]

I've never used a pattern to lay vinyl - did it make it easier?

 

[Flubber]

yes indeed.

 

[Sign_Boy]

Nice - Was it a pounce pattern? Can you explain how it was done?
Thank you.

 

[Flubber]

make a hinge at the top and tape all the pieces up take the pattern off step back see what needs fine tuning and start slapping some vinyl down..

 

[Flubber]

No..we used the the pen tool. It also depends on the size of the paper you can get your hands on bigger the better we were lucky enough to know some people who work at the paper mill and we had a roll of 48 inch blank paper given to us but we still have paper from them that has som graphics on it but you can still see through it a lil.

 

[Sign_Boy]

Got ya - Thanks - Next time tell the boss to put the beer down and help!!!

 

[Flubber]

I do better when i work alone...been doing it for almost two years alone 80% of the time and im glad too bc i have learned alot by just going out and getting it done.

 

[ddubia]

I work better alone too. Been working that way for 25 years. I don't usually know what to have a helper do so often they just give me a third hand here and there. Most of the time I use masking tape for that. Hard to justify paying a guy to emulate a piece of masking tape.

Never thought of using a pattern. Sounds like a feasible idea. What I usually do is scale up a picture of the vehicle actual size and measure at various points. I'll print that out as my blueprint and line the vinyl up according to my measurements. Still often needs a little tweaking but works for me.

I may try a pattern on a job in the future as it's not a bad idea.

btw.. good job on both vehicles.

 

[Flubber]

I like your method as well ddubia....a patern works great for this kind of job bc the company has 18 busses $$$$$

 

[phototec]

The bus was fineshed about an hour ago and the truck was done yesterday.

Is that your Bus-Port, or is it the bus companies cover?

The pattern is good only when you have multiple vehicles (like you have), other wise, (for just one, it's a waste of paper and time to plot. Like ddubia, I just take a photo straight on (with a yardstick in the photo), scale it up in Photoshop, make and overlay to scale, and then I have a real scaled diagram (blueprint), which I can measure and know how far from any point on the bus to place the vinyl graphics.

Good Job on both!