How it was done
Peggy Flora Zalucha creates four decorated buses for Madison Metro Transit System

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The image is designed in a powerful Macintosh computer using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. A painting by Zalucha was scanned and overlaid onto a template of a bus. Mockups were created for presentation to the Transit and Parking Authority of Madison. 
 

Upon approval, the painting was scanned using a large bed scanner at extremely high resolution by Large Format Digital. The image is transferred onto a heavy duty vinyl with an adhesive back. Installation specialists were hired to adhere the images to the buses. Because the buses were not to be away from their routes, the installation on all four buses was done in one weekend by "Touch of Perfection, Scott Perme, owner.

 

 The complete front of the bus is one large decal. It is stretched across and carefull trimmed out so that all areas are nicely covered. Because the entire front is totally covered, no painting was required on the bus.

 

Wheel wells, front door windows, and lights are carefully trimmed out.

 

 

Brad and Scott, "Touch of Perfection", get wrapped up in their work.

 

 

The wrap that goes over the windows is of a special perforated vinyl that allows paople inside the bus to see out, but those on the outside can't see in. Madison Metro asked that a minimum of the bus windows be obscured, so the "perf" was limited to the capitol dome and surrounding flowers. This also kept the costs down.

production people 

Twenty days after the approval of the Transit and Parking Commission, Peggy Zalucha of Millennium Murals, (far right), Jeff Rank, Troy Mancusi, and Marty of Large Format Digital (ties) and Scott Perme of Touch of Perfection (shorts) were present for the dedication of the buses by Mayor Sue Baumann.

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