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That's not mold - that's material failure. More specifically, the adhesive layer. JBurton is right - for an ecosolvent, outgassing is extremely important before running it through a laminator. That said, that sign must have had (still have) some significant sun exposure to cook it that bad. I...

^ Which the primary ingredient is Xylene, followed ny Naptha.. o_O

Looks great to me! Nice job!

If he's supplying the material, shop rate with a minimum. I haven't worked with Di Noc, so I don't know how difficult it is or not to maneuver. But why sell yourself short? You'll need some extra hands, ladders or scaffold at the very least.

Flat shop rate per hour, 2 hour minimum, plus materials, no matter how small the job is. I don't work for free.

Just a guess, but it looks like it might be edge sealant, like you would use on wraps. Cut the main copy (white), outline it, and weed the outline. Apply everything and add edge sealant to the outlined area. Pull before it sets - you have a perfect outline of sealant. Whether or not that's what...

Nuthin' unusual. Looks like it's on the side of a boat. Probably one of the toughest environments for vinyl there is.

Up to you. Any translucent vinyl will work. I've printed on frosted for various effects..

Yep, a high res camera and go to it. Those are actual bikes up on stands. Professional photographers are your friend for doing stuff like that.

It's all conjecture since we can't physically see the pieces nor know the circumstances by what the failure happened. Move on. I would have no issues with outsourcing to the police-graphics.com if you're unable to do the job yourself. I would talk with whomever you're talking with at the...

Off topic, but it does appear to be a Carrera GTS. Perhaps he added a turbo to the engine.. you don't know (nor anyone else) for sure..

Hmm.. never had an Xacto barrel fail (or grip rubber). Blades loosen, yes.. Rolling off the table.. I use the Gripster(s) with the anti-roll collar...

Not my taste, but looks like a quality job. No worse than the chrome Lamborghini's.

The right way? Which way is that, Joe? Matching the printed stripe as they have on their other vehicles, or since I can't do that, layer the three colors that are in the stripe with the appropriate colors (which I am doing)? I've let the department know that I cannot match what they have exactly...

Well... when it's a fire department that has to have consistency, you have to do what you can to the best of your abilities. I've been very fortunate to find alternatives to some problems that turned out better than the originals - and those departments are now valued clients.

Yep, it's a Pierce stripe I'm trying to duplicate. The blue isn't an issue, it's that weird gold. There isn't even a decent PMS match to start from. I don't think it may be possible with a solvent machine; the pre-loaded profiles for FDC's gold wasn't even close. But then, I've never really...

What money?

Excellent... I'll give that a test over the weekend. Thanks, Joe! Oh.. and I do use Flexi, albeit a very, very old version.. my 3M palette doesn't even include reflective. But the FDC section does.. I'll have to play with that. Just never though about looking through those swatch sections - my...

That's actually not bad! I'll have to bookmark that for later use. RJ Marx won't sell even a typeset word - they'll only sell their product as a finished product. Not a great business model, but whatever.. I've replaced enough of their work (and digitized each letter) to have half the alphabet...

Well, that's the point of the exercise - print on white reflective to obtain a standard reflective color. I've been "trial and error-ing" all afternoon and can't even get something close.. blue, red and greens are somewhat easy.. the golds are the pain in the a$$!