sign writing

[john the horse]

Morning all.

As mentioned in my threaed the bus is always going through change and so the next change is the outside.

As we are going to paint at the end of next year we are going to have the bus sign written and laquered for next season, well if we like it loads the we may extend the painting schedule.

Anyway who is up for signwriting our bus , i had a few in mind but anybody got any suggestions, the sign writing is mainly going to be almost non existent on the primer and faded to original on whats left of the paint.

Localish would be good.

The look we are after is a cross between the speed master and the laundry bus. have the logo design ready.

Oh and so when its done the bus will have a name change too...... The Newman Haas bus!

Funds ready for the right job guys ill put a pic up in a bit of the bus and the signwriting required and so maybe i could ask a favour from one of you photoshop gurus. ta

jth

http://www.jeffjobb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/NewmanHassLogo1.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Oh just to say the racing bit will be replaced with "brickyard Indionapolis( spelt correctly i hope :lol: )ïll get a dictionary first!!
An the wring will all be blue, no point in red on a red bus

 

[Clem]

Prosign? On here as 'pinstriper'



Paint your bus?? :?

 

[vwvanman0]

Hayburner magazine has an ad for patina signwriting,and funds help keep the mag going, Ned the editor is on here,

not sure how far they willl be from you.cant find my mags!

 

[dubscum]

******* signwriting on your bus. Patina paint is for to OG for that! if your board, paint your wheels again

 

[john the horse]

i get it that the paints og and all but , its our bus and as said before have noticed it getting slightly worse, so figured why not have it sign written, and as for og paint, well the roof aint og no more and nea=ither is anything else.
I understand the patina police and all there commitmeent to that but, ours isnt even paint its only primer left and that is porous and so why not have a bit of fun for a year or two prior to paint.

our bus our rules, not wanting to offend anyone at all , but our bus is a keeper and therefore have to look after it the best we can.

there are plenty of og cars in the scrapyard and we dont want to go down that route just yet.

asfor the sisn writing those two guys were what i had in mind only i bet ned would be a whole lot cheaper, not to knock prosigns work , which is totally amazing.

ta for the thoughts all welcomed.

jth...... hiding behind the sofa in fear of the patina police :msn4:

 

[squareweave]

I say do what you want with it after all its yours. Hopefully you go with a high quality paint job. I personally like the patina, especially with no rot or major damage.

This my only thought and its just an opinion, so take it from there. That logo looks way to new to try to fake by distressing it to look old. I'm not sure of the background of the logo but looks very late 80's to me.

 

[jonboylaw]

Some Photoshop mock-ups for you John.

NH Logo Bright:

NH Logo Dull:

NH Logo Aged:

I like the aged one personally.

Let me know if you want it placing on another part of the van.

 

[aogrady]

Hi!

Have a look on here for some ideas.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=404496" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cheers!

Alistair

 

[john the horse]

OMG just went straight to heaven , cheers for all the thoughts and effort fellas

 

[jonboylaw]

Here you go John:

The logo is too deep to get all 3 panels unless you can cover the windows:

 

[Olskoolchris]

Love the faded sign writing idea John, but i think an older font would look better, but like you said its your bus.
Cheers Chris.

 

[jonboylaw]

How about this one:

 

[Olskoolchris]

Looks cool, bit more faded i think.

 

[jonboylaw]

Looks cool, bit more faded i think.

You mean like this....

 

[Olskoolchris]

BINGO! wonder if John will like it?

 

[john the horse]

like the first still, might have to wingless, lets see, thanks fellas much happiness

jth

 

[jonboylaw]

I should do this as a living.. Haha.
John, I can clip the wings if you want the rest. Do you want me to remove the racing bit?

 

[jonboylaw]

Ok, logo only, no Wings or racing...
I distressed it a bit as well for added effect.

Hope you like it.

 

[john the horse]

thanks so so much fellas for the efforts, have finally realised that our bus wont look too cool sign written esp the whole side, glad i found it out this way raher than the wrong way, i was always in doubt but thought hey lets see , ya never no, i do like the door only though so lets see

thanks again , much happiness.

jth

ps off with a few EB massive tonight for a bit of a burn up in my mates garden.

stella plus fire plus fireworks, can only lead to good results , surely!!!

jth