Pontypool based Marshall and Hicks Print Services gives a well used working van a new outlook…

Works’ vans do a very important job for the companies that own and operate them and often live a hard life doing it. Eventually, the time comes to replace them with something newer and with fewer miles under their wheels and the retiring vehicles go on and find a new home.

Marshall and Hicks numbers among its many customers in the Pontypool area and beyond T&C Services, a pluming and maintenance business. Kelvin, Dave and the team at Marshall and Hicks have provided the company with van liveries regularly over the years and recently got to grips with one returning for the second time.

The van in question was giving up its day job and had been bought by one of T&C’s employees who planned to turn it into a camper for his family. He wanted the van which, was looking a little battle-worn, to be wrapped in a graphical homage to one of his kids’ favourite cartoon shows. The team at Marshall and Hicks got stuck into the job.

The wrap’s design features characters from the popular show arranged on a background drawn and digitised by the Marshall and Hicks team. It’s an absolute riot of colour and brilliantly executed. The design went through a couple of iterations before the customer gave it the thumbs-up and production could proceed.

The design features expansive fields of faded colours in transition and works really well in dominating the available space on the van. The print is flawless with the soft gradiations being free of any artefacts that would otherwise detract from the design. As fan homages go, this is among the  best.

The team at Marshall and Hicks elected to use Metamark’s MD-X wrapping film for the job and the MD-Class wrapping media has played its part well in faithfully delivering the ‘pop’ that carries the colour so well. Every detail is sharp and of course it’s all protected with a tough layer of MD-X’s matching MetaGuard laminate, MG-X.

The finished job looks brilliant and is a great advert for Marshall and Hicks’ skills. As campers go, this one is a real head-turner and its happy owner and passengers can look forward to a lot of finger-pointing and admiring looks when they take to the road.

Work of this class tends to have a self-promoting quality and others who see it will play with the idea of getting something similar done. Marshall and Hick has proven itself more than capable on both the creative and practical fronts. 

Brilliant work, Kelvin, Dave and team.