PAINTING WESTON RED
By Dave Saltman C
an you do some marking out for us please? A simple question from a large publicity company, to which the answer was, yes we can!
The company in question was actually
representing the car giant, Toyota, and they were looking for some designed branding to furnish the grassed area on and around their stand at the T4 Festival in Weston-super-Mare.
The design was fairly simple, just a range of different sized circles, to be painted in two colours, white and the correct pantone which makes the Toyota red.
As with all these types of events,
coordination is the key to success as you find yourself trying to work with other trades, all with a common aim; to be finished as per schedule and in time for the event.
Doing line marking on grass however does mean that we were limited slightly as to when we could do our work. If it was done first, as the PR agency had initially asked, then the lorries and foot traffic involved in the stage building, lighting, crowd barriers and audio systems would probably have ruined the work. I explained to the PR guys that line marking was usually the last job carried out on the playing surface for that reason, and that we would really need to
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be the last people on site to complete our work -and so it came to be. I took Dan Hughes with me from our sales office, as punishment for taking on these jobs (usually I get lumbered by myself), and we stopped at Fleet Linemarkers en route to pick up the Super C and the specially mixed Pantone red 186 paints. Special thanks should be passed to Dr. Peter Taylor, Fleet’s chemist, who produced the perfect match.
Thanks also to Laurence (writing) Gale, we had borrowed two kombi spray markers from local sports clubs, so we were ready for the mania that lay ahead. With an event the size of T4, and
around 50,000 festival goers, accommodation was like rocking horse manure. A timely call to Jon Lawrence (a regular message board contributor and local resident) ensured a room for the night in return for a curry and some flowers for his understanding wife! Dan and I met our organisers on site and were given security passes so that we could gain access to the whole area. This was particularly important as the free canteen was situated right behind the main stage on the beach! We set about our task with vigour, first setting out the area and then putting down markers for all the circles. The
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