Official timing bus of La Vuelta fully wrapped with the Festina graphics in printed vinyl

Watchmaking

Festina Full wrap for the timing bus

Signage
Spain

The project

What we did

Client: Festina
Sector: Watchmaking
Area: Signage
Type of work: Vehicles
Location: Spain

Full wrap of the official timing bus of the 2009 Vuelta for Festina. The work covered both sides, the rear and the front in large-format printed vinyl, over a continuous surface several metres long. Produced in our own workshop and installed with access equipment, including the final check before the caravan set off.

The challenge

A bus offers the largest continuous bay of any vehicle, and there is nowhere to hide a badly matched joint. Installation calls for working at height, and the race calendar allows no delay: the vehicle had to be on the road with the caravan on a fixed date.

Our solution

The graphics were broken into vertical bays of manageable width, with overlaps calculated so the image registers between drops with no shift in tone. It was printed large-format digitally on cast vinyl and laminated to withstand UV and the washing of the whole race. The installation was planned by levels, with scaffold and platform, applying from the top down after surface preparation and heat-forming over swages, mouldings and the contours of glazing and luggage bays. Finished with edge sealing and a check of every overlap.