Recently purchased a patina'd 48 GMC PU from the second owner, a 90-some yo former orchardist. Complete with the original jack. Our family in the 40s was the world's largest exporter of red delicious apples. I would like to use our now inactive orchard label to put on the doors and make it look like it was once one of our trucks. I'm not sure how to "age" or distress the label and how to apply it to the doors. I've thought about using a graphic artist to ***ist, but thought I would check with you smart folks first. Any help is appreciated. Steve
Haha. Not concerned about that at all. I don't know too many people offended by GMCs, well, maybe a few Ford guys, but that's it.
Don't really have any advice for you, just wanted to say how cool your truck is and your Family's company label. I spent 31 yrs. working produce for Safeway Stores and always appreciated the art work and originality of these items. I only wish that I had saved many of the labels as now most are stamped onto cartons and are nothing like the old style, colorful art of the past. Good luck with your project and welcome to the HAMB..........................................Don.
You want someone who's not not just a letterer but also a talented traditional painter. I went to art school, it will be really hard to paint the indian's portrait without having it look wrong, make sure the person you hire has some art chops. A decal will not look right, unless there is something other than vinyl I don't know about.
Have no idea where you are, ( not in your info, not going to ***ume still Washington state) but this guy, or someone like him would be perfect. Bobbondart.com
Your Artwork can be scanned, and printed on long-life exterior vinyl. It will look virtually the same as the original. Then I would suggest, simply rubbing on 2 or 3 colors to add dimension. Here's a Sign I just did for a client. The original, and the patina result. Get in touch with a local Sign shop.
Have you considered giving that truck a new coat of paint ? It looks like it has earned it. Then it would look good with a 'new' label also !
Washington state??... Alicia Jennings the mudflap girl! You could also do side rack signboards... I can paint 'm and ship to you... real farm truck style! Don't settle for computer stuff.
agreed, find an airbrush artist. a good one. they are out there. also can be done in vinyl to look old, but I think it will always look like a sticker. I'd go with artist and paint myself.
There you go! Check out Geet's website, awesome, his work is great. I think he's in FL, think Bob is in MO. Get 'er done.
NEVER do that with a sticker. Paint, or even an old waterslide (looks like you might have used those for the oldlogos) is the only way to do it. Alicia is a rock star, as is Bob. theres ways to weather a water slide, or paint. Get a good artist!
A label looks right on a crate. But a door on a truck deserves it's own look, basic big lettering with the company name and location. Not the picture.
The company name and portrait could look good and some additional large lettering for the product and old phone number or town/city maybe. Small type would be too hard to see. I have seen where people have taken pictures, printed them out reversed and then somehow rubbed them onto the surface which gives it a vintage look. It has to be a certain type of printer and ink (inkjet/laser/?) tho and yours would be larger than a typical home printer. Where there's a will there's a way. The artist route could work too. Hopefully you have a good piece of original artwork.
Yeah I thought about it. But, I have plenty of those. I wanted to go a different direction with this one. It took 68 years to get this look.
I'll look into the waterslide option. We have a water park not too far away, so... Kidding. I don't even know what that is, but will look into it. I was originally thinking of something similar to the "decals" we used on model cars and airplanes where you dipped them in water and then peeled them off of the card stock backing and carefully applied them on the model-trying not to get it crooked. Not sure if there is anything like that available on this scale. Maybe that's what a waterslide is. Then I thought I could clear over it somehow. I like the idea of paint. But that's always risky and I really done know any graphic artists. But I can ask around. Not sure what can be done with airbrush. Airbrush is great for some things but always seems to have this "look".
That's a GEL transfer, done it on wood many times, I suppose it'd work on the door too, has a pretty good weathered feel to it also, probably not the most permanent way, but itd work. Yup, water and slide it off... waterslide decal. you can buy printer paper for them, and im sure someone online could print even bigger.
I agree with this sentiment. Here is a good example - the truck is BASED ON the design of the Old Crow Whiskey label -- but altered to look good on the side of a truck. Big difference between doing this and just putting a label on the truck. Painted by: http://luckybdesign.blogspot.com/2013/04/old-crow-speed-shop-34-panel-truck.html
The label is badd***. I have a bunch of those from the 30-s and 40's. Frankly, I'd repaint the truck and have the logo painted on so it looks fresh style. Make it a family business tribute heirloom. Maybe the letters and not the portrait. Rub it with a small chain and a ton of comet for the aged look. Man, I went a lot of directions.
I don't know how many of the old sign painters are around. Everything is done with vinyl these days. I remember when we got a sponsorship from a beer distributor back in the 70s. We asked the sign painter if he needed a large poster sized picture of the label. He said that the can would be fine but he needed 3 cans for each side and something to keep them cold. Took him under an hour to paint both doors while drinking the beer. We were using letter templets to put the other sponsors names on the fenders. Two of us had one fender done by the time he had the doors done and he painted the other 3 fenders in 15 minutes without any templets.
There's an old sign painter in town, he's been doing race cars for decades...he did mine, it seems to be good enough to grace the cover of Hot Rod mag
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