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thanks again guys. some day I'm sure I'll have another project to show, but for now it's time to focus on the "go" and let the "show" be what it is.

thanks wildstyle - we are very proud of our car thanks tnt - that's exactly how I've been doing it - works very well.

finally got around to getting some better overall shots of the car in its completed state:

oops, forgot to add this a few weeks back when I finished the front chin spoiler/splitter... we'll probably remove it and change it to better match the graphics on the side of the car.

a few updated pics - still have some more work to do, but its coming along. first image is of the newest scheme we decided to go with. thanks for looking.

hey guys... haven't gotten much achieved in the way of new graphics on the car, but while working on some mechanical improvements, I did get a chance to snap some better pics.

I did all my mock-up work in Corel with that image you see on the first page of this thread. Basically it was the best side shot of the car I had. I did everything small scale at first, but then once the layout was all done and I was happy with it, I took a measurement on the car and then scaled up the photo/mock-up drawing to match it in Corel (basically, I have a full scale photo/mock-up of the car in Corel). So far, things have laid out pretty closely to the photo. The number plate seemed to fit perfectly, but the star was just a tad longer than it should be - by maybe a 1/2". A fellow VW racer is trying to get me to do some graphics for his VW Corrado. My advice to him was: stand back away from the side of the car, squat down so the lens of the camera is the same level as the top of the door (where it meets the glass) and take a clean, clear, STEADY, photo in high res if possible. An overcast day is the best to help alleviate defined shadows. With a good photo, it would be much easier to mock something up.

we'll try our best

thanks guys. yeah, def. very minor imperfection considering the scope of the project. I was just pointing it out before everyone else did There are plenty of imperfection in the car's paint (which I also did) that the imperfections of the vinyls will fall right into suite And you are right, considering what the car is used for, it looks FAR better than any of the other cars we run with - in fact, too nice. I'll keep you guys updated as I make more progress. If any of you are car-nuts and want a really LONG read, I do have a thread on another forum where I posted the entire car's build. It was a 10 month project ending with one race at the end of Oct. of '07 (car was stripped down to its shell and rebuilt as a dedicated track car). Obviously, you can skip all the forum chatter and just look at all the pics. Enjoy: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3030108

couple problem areas, but surprisingly, the big star laid down pretty well (minus a little alignment issue with the point of the star). I may redo the lower left point of the star. it was a complex install and I

so a few differing opinions on how to go about this huh? I think what I might do on the other side is: 1. install the big white background solo 2. marry the white square and the black background square on the workbench, then install 3. marry the red number w/ the black background numbers on the bench, then install sort of a hybrid of the two install theories.

I will try the other side wet. as a side note, this is my first ever vehicle application and even more so, my first large size vinyl application. I did the big, white background wet and still got some small bubbles. So to be honest, probably no matter how I go about this, I'll get bubbles since my application experience is so limited. trial by fire

the star will be in 3 separate pieces. I didn't want to see the star outline behind the number plate, so I'll just shimmy each piece up real tight to the number plate and hope for no obvious gaps. this is the only situation where this will happen - in all other cases, I'll just overlap layers as required.

thanks again for the help guys. I didn't catch fivestar's post until after I had already got one side down, so I will try his suggested method on the passenger side. I did get some bubbles on this side as you can see in the pics, but many of the little ones will shrink when it warms up I'm sure; I'll try to work out any of the big ones tonight. all-in-all, it went down very easy and they all came together pretty nicely. anyway, here's some progress.

perfect - thank you guys. I'm still glad I laid down the big white background on the car. Had I done all 5 layers at once and screwed it up, it would have been a lot of wasted work/material. this way I'm only laying down the 4 top smaller layers at once. should make life a lot easier. thanks again guys!