New name, new picture.

[Emerald Fox]

Thanks for all the helpful comments on this! Appreciated. Today (2nd Oct) we went to a small advertising office/firm (in Ylivieska, where we went to buy 4 new studded tyres)(Winter's here) and saw some of their work and now we are sure that 'vinyl' will be for us.

One of the pictures I had ready and this was scanned and on enlargement on the computer screen to 'real lfe size' still looked good. They have a huge selection of fonts for lettering, but of course you can take in whatever you want and they can scan it.

What they'll do (when we have decided on the picture in it's entirety) is set it on their computer and click 'print'. The items will probably come out as 3 pictures stuck onto a transparent film - each picture has its own peel-away backing, and you simply remove these and carefully lay the whole film over the panel of the boat, finally pulling away the transparent film. There will be 2 sets of transparent film, as both sides of boat get the same picture (of course, can be reversed if one likes).

This firm usually covers trucks and vans and cars with logos.

The panel of the boat we'll paint by hand first, for the background colour, and we'll paint this soon so it'll have a few months to dry out before applying the 'vinyl transfers'.

[mark99]

As someone who has applied vinyl (on motorbikes) and other transfers do yourself a favour and look at the how to do It videos on u tube first. They are not hard providing you use the correct lubricant and squeegee tool. They are however easy to crease and ruin.

Edited October 2, 2014 by mark99

[ChimneyChain]

I fitted vinyl to 30 lorries at my old workshop where I used to work, diluted fairly and water a rubber squeegee and a pin to pop any bubbles that appear. Piece of cake.

 

Darren

[5thHorseman]

 

The panel of the boat we'll paint by hand first, for the background colour, and we'll paint this soon so it'll have a few months to dry out before applying the 'vinyl transfers'.

Seriously, I would not do this.

We apply vinyls as soon as the paint is dry. Much better surface and no contamination.

 

 

 

edited - spelling

Edited October 2, 2014 by 5thHorseman