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reflective decals that somehow are not that visible on police cars
- Thread starter gabagoo
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Gino
Premium Subscriber
Do you have some samples or specifics in mind ??
We've lettered a few black cars with black reflective and unless you are in the right light on the right angle, you can't tell it's lettered. At night, it's a whole different story. It's almost like an UN-mark cruiser by day.... Mean Machine at night.
We've lettered a few black cars with black reflective and unless you are in the right light on the right angle, you can't tell it's lettered. At night, it's a whole different story. It's almost like an UN-mark cruiser by day.... Mean Machine at night.
jfiscus
Rap Master
"Stealth Police Graphics Packages" We haven't done any like that style around here, but I would assume like is mentioned above. Find the closest reflective to the paint color and letter it with that. It will never be a "ghost" effect, but it's the closest you can come with reflective vinyl.
http://www.vspgraphics.com/stealth_police_fleet_kits.php
http://www.vspgraphics.com/stealth_police_fleet_kits.php
gabagoo
New Member
I used to think it was just white reflective on white paint, but lets face it...white reflective is referred to by many as silver so that is not it. I have seen the cars and know that there is no way just white on white...it actually matches the colour of the car somehow. I wonder if the cars is sprayed after the reflective is put on with some sort of transluncent off white which covers everything. I wish I had a pic to show, but cant find the effect on google
signcrafters
New Member
I've done some stuff similar to that on an Edge using a halftone pattern on white reflective.
The transparent foils can do some weird and cool stuff too.
The transparent foils can do some weird and cool stuff too.
Doyle
New Member
I'm trying to find my post on this from a few years ago.... I posted some pictures of a ford explorer that we did this way, it is navy blue and we matched the paint color with printable reflective. Turned out really well, you can't even see the graphics in the day time. I took two pictures of it, one with the flash turned off on my camera and one with the flash turned on, where you really see the difference.
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visual800
Active Member
When i was doing the police fleet for our city, they just got the new camaros in and said they did not want the bold graphics on them I was doing and asked what I thought would be "hidden but seen" I said do black reflective on the black cars! i though if anything it would scare the hell out of someone at night. i think it would have kicked ***!
You're waaay overthinking it. I'm fairly certain it's just white reflective vinyl on white cars and Black reflective vinyl on the black/dark blue cars. What detachment in particular are you using as your reference? I know for a fact the OPP is just 3M black reflective.
Looks like Toronto uses a similar effect on their cars, but I'm going to guess they're using a different brand, as the black tends to look more brownish/goldish.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stealthgraphics/
I did a few special order type things for our local police... more or less experimenting with black reflective, and the effects we could get off of it. One "trick" was for the hash marks often seen across the back bumpers. We printed translucent red stripes onto black reflective vinyl. On a black bumper, it barely showed up during the day, but at night with oncoming traffic, it would reflect a brilliant red/white/red/white hash pattern.
TyrantDesigner
Art! Hot and fresh.
just as others have said, just use a similar color and you're fine. Cops in this town have been doing it off and on for a few years ... black on black or it's a cmyk color printed onto white with a subtle gradient to give it depth but not obtrusive.
Did a few work trucks with white reflective on white trucks, worked pretty well ... white is slightly off ... until the truck gets covered with a slight layer of road grime ... then you can't tell it's there until your headlights are pointed at it.
Did a few work trucks with white reflective on white trucks, worked pretty well ... white is slightly off ... until the truck gets covered with a slight layer of road grime ... then you can't tell it's there until your headlights are pointed at it.
Pat Whatley
New Member
You know, this whole thing just really irks me. Why in the heck are the police trying to f'ing hide? Why are they trying to pimp out police cars? Why do they feel the need to go all yahoo and faux badass?
Morons with guns.
Morons with guns.
signage
New Member
So when they go to the local message parlor, when they are on duty, no one see them their.
:ROFLMAO:
rjpjr
New Member
Joe Diaz
New Member
I agree with you on the hiding part. I think we all know why they really want to hide, but I mean come on.
As far as pimping out their cars... I hope this continues, we get a lot of business from our local police, county sheriffs and many of the depts in surrounding communities because of this..... now that the prison doesn't do the graphics that is.
gabagoo
New Member
I agree with you on the hiding part. I think we all know why they really want to hide, but I mean come on.
As far as pimping out their cars... I hope this continues, we get a lot of business from our local police, county sheriffs and many of the depts in surrounding communities because of this..... now that the prison doesn't do the graphics that is.
I can't say for sure, but up here how can a cop hide when the car is a Crown Vic? Only cops drive anything so hideous!!!!
I have seen these cars up here and I am insistant that it is not just white reflective on a white car.... The 2 colours match almost 100%, and anyone in this business knows that white reflective is not really that white.
I am going to drive over to the cop shop and see if one is there and take a close look. Hopefully I don't get arrested.
James Burke
Being a grandpa is more fun than working
They're incognito here also. Along with the matching reflective, they're using ultra low-profile LED gumballs on rooftop, or LEDs mounted in the uppermost portion of the interior window glass in both front and rear. It's amazing how intense those LEDs can be for no bigger than they are.
I think they're thinking that they'll catch more offenders if they're unaware of police presence.
JB
I think they're thinking that they'll catch more offenders if they're unaware of police presence.
JB