Labeling Toy Cars
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- surface
My agency has been in contact with a potential client (auto company) for a few weeks now and we wanted to toss in a little reminder toy for them:
We want to put our agency's logo on one of those scaled-down Nascar vehicles that about the size of a soda can. We're trying to plot down our options to throw our logo on the car:
- Using a stencil and painting it on. However, the small size would require some intricate cutting to get the stencil dialed down.
- Small die-cuts
The huge drag is that we need this ready and shipped over to the client by Friday. I'm guessing it probably won't happen considering turn around times for sticker printing isn't that quick. Not to mention my Xacto knife skills are a bit rusty..
- baseline_shift0
how complex is your logo?
could you print on those little clear label stickers?
- WeAreDAG0
Laser cutting.
- chris_himself0
try and find a sign shop with a Gerber Edge (most use/have one) send them a file to scale with plot lines and ask for it to be printed on clear material, lots of colors including white and specialty metallics etc if executed properly it would be like getting your own custom set of decals you'd find in a model car kit....
- surface0
Our logo has a few complex strips that would stir a problem with the xacto, but our logotype is pretty simple with some loose kerning.
What options do I have with printing something out of our office printer (HP Color LJ 5500)?
- scarabin_net0
stenciling could be messy on a curved surface. if you go that route, do what i do and spray a little spraymount on the back of the stencil so it adheres to the surface you want painted. this will help with the fuzzy edges that come from there being space between the stencil and surface, and keep the stencil from moving around while you're spraying.
- I was just thinking about how I was going to deal with sticking something onto the curved parts of the car..surface
- version30
um
make a rubber stamp and just stamp it on the model
- gabe0
call me crazy (or naive), but couldn't you just do something simple/low budget using some transparent sticker paper?
- doesnotexist0
get it silkscreened on there- it's done all the time for promotional items.
- gabe0
i'd suggest running out and quickly buying a pack of that clear sticker paper and doing a test run, seeing as your deadline is fast approaching :)
at least then you'll know if you need to explore other options.
- Rodimus790
send these guys your vectors and pay them to do it?
http://reprolabels.com/index.htm…- those are all done on Gerber edge as suggested abovechris_himself
- dirtydesign0
cut vinyl decals
- Hurley0
Dude ya, just make some graphics, send it to a large format print shop and they can die cut some decals for you. You're probably working 1-16th scale so the graphics wont be that small.
That is actually how you can pitch a nascar design which we did a few years ago.
- Knuckleberry0
Silk screen?
- felizfeliz0
cars are bad for the environment.
- Machuse0
good luck.
but i would try to get my exacto out and some 'model' paint. (go to a tattoo artist and have him cut it out?? Be creative in getting it done - if you really want to avoid it)
Gerber edge seems more or less awesome as well
- PonyBoy0
+1 to the sign shop / cut vinyl comments