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I had to collect all my own. The ones I couldn't find I had to retrace. I have quite a collection going now of about 140-150 logos. If you're a member on the SilviaWA forums, I have a list of them there in the Traders section.

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Brendan

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I had to collect all my own. The ones I couldn't find I had to retrace. I have quite a collection going now of about 140-150 logos. If you're a member on the SilviaWA forums, I have a list of them there in the Traders section.

Cheers

Brendan

Brendan is awsome, he did 3 stickers for me, 2 custom and 1 tomei sticker; and what can i say they came out awsome, really top work, price was good too :)

p.s im evl_r33, you did those tuning house stickers for me (i will contact you soon on again, as i need another 3 or 4 for some friends :))

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Thanks mate, and if you haven't gathered from the above post, I have a vinyl cutter. I'm mainly only doing logos and stuff as I'm not quite setup for doing racing stripes et al. I did however do the graphics on 'Angry13' which some of you may have seen at the recent Cabin Autosalon under the SilviaWA banner. Also did all the ones on the C-Red cars except for the racing stripes (S15) and window tinting (JZ, S14).

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It really depends on what you want to do. I mean with Woody's car (Angry13) I already had vector art laid out on an outline of a Silvia already done. So I resized to correct size, cut and applied. I applied dry though, not wet which can also be done.

In regards to taking off, it depends on whether or not the paint has had time to cure. Woody's paint is original, so there's no problem. But with new paint you need to leave at least 2 weeks before you apply graphics otherwise when you pull it off you can take paint off. When you're taking it off, either leave in sun for a while or use something like a heat gun to make it easier to remove. If there anything left over (glue/gum), first use some mineral turpentine on a rag and soak the area, if a lost of glue, soak and scrap off with a plastic card, then use methylated spirits to clean off. Finally before applying any graphics use IPA (isopropyl alchohol) to clean the area. If you apply graphics onto newly polished areas, don't expect it to last as it doesn't stick well and the polish and any other contaminents can gas out through the vinyl sticker.

Here endeth the lesson.

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Brendan

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Hehehe, well there's differences firstly in the way the vinyl is made. Some is sort of stretched out (calendered) and the other is layed out (cast). Cast is the better of the two as it doesn't have the inherent tendency to want to go back to original shape. It also depends on the manufacturers specifications, the longer you want it to last, the more you pay. The manufacturers will guarantee it to last a specific amount of time as long as it's been applied properly. It also depends on it's location on how long it will last - full sun facing up versus side of car, minimal sun. Hope that gives you an idea. I tend to use only the better stuff (Avery 900 series vinyl) as it's a little easier to work with most times and you never know how long it'll need to last. But I always give caveats to the customer depending on whether or not that polished the car recently etc etc.

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Computer images are viewed as one of two types (mostly) - raster or vector. Raster images are those wholly made up of pixels (coloured or monotone) - examples are photos (JPEG's, Bitmaps, TIFF's, RAW) and gif animations. When you zoom in on a raster image, all you'll see is bigger pixels. A vector image however is made up of how should I put it...mathmatical data for want of a better term. Basically is says to the viewing app draw a line from this point to that point in black and make it 0.25mm thick. Vector apps include Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Macromedia Flash (which can use both vector and raster) and to some extent Adobe Photoshop (although that's a mainly raster based app). When you zoom in on vector images, the lines, colours, shapes and fills stay sharp even at 1600% magnification.

Hope that explains it.

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just wondering what prograns u use to convert bitmap to vector. i use coral draw and vinyl master pro at times just wondered if you had found something more user friendly :angry: i have a vinyl cutter as well and have hundreds of stripe type graphics already in vector

cheers mid life crisis

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