I was originally invited my Rikki James from SSVC after meeting him on the Ninove Cruise earlier in the year. Paul from T2D also suggested that I sell some posters from their stand (muchio apprecio for the trade space Paul).

As the van was staying in the Paddock area in Sandown Sat & Sun so I booked a room at the Ship Hotel in Weybridge. I was given the disabled room bizarrely, but it turned out to be rather palatial, perfect as I had 35 posters to wrap up and needed the floor space.

Saturday was an early start, the van was filthy so I was washing it in the car park at 6:15 in the morning! Then finished off some more poster wrapping. No time for breakfast, off to the Sandown gates for 7:45am.

The Paddock

Was great lining up next to Shep from Boss Dog who arrived with the awesome graphic wrapped split screen. Some amazing vans inside and out of the paddock. The weather was great for HDR’s. Good cloud coverage making for some moody pics.

Met up with Tom Wheatley on the Sunday. We sent a few hours checking out some of the rides in the paddock and talked HDR photography (yawn I hear you say). But its great to speak to a fellow photo geek.

Some pics of the weekend

Congratulations to Matt Ballz from the T2D who won a Top 20 with project Goof

Poster Sales

The posters were really well received. We sold over half the stock we took with us which was amazing. The landscape ones sold on the Saturday and we could have sold them 10 times over! Others didn’t sell quiet so well, but it was more of a test the water thing.

Buy posters online here

Finally, thanks to everyone who bought a poster. Means a lot knowing that my photography is appreciated by more than just me!

Those people that asked about photo sessions for their buses. I’m chuffed to be asked to do that for you. I’d be well up for it, just get in contact and hopefully we can get a date set and get shooting. I will be attending some more events during the summer. I’ll be posting events we’ll be attending on our new page imaginatively named… Events.

Also cheers to T2D for the trade space. Cheers fellas.

You can find us the Type 2 Detective stage throughout the weekend.

Posters will be available in A2 and A1 sizes and either mounted on 6mm foam board ready to hang on a wall or just printed. We will have limited prints available, if we run out of a particular poster we will take your details and post it to you within 10 days.

Prints for sale:

Click on thumbnails below price list.

Fen-Studios-Prices Brasilia+Square _59Q4259_60_61_tonemapped Ballz-Bus brasilia ninove-bay-window ninove-bug sav-3-4 Sav-Barndoor-3-vw-detail Splity-Conamora-NP Splity-Dingle-1 splity-sunset TV-Bus-1 tv-bus-side-front tv-bus Wayne-DC-1 Wayne-DC-2

Organise a shoot with Jon

Fen Studios will be taking many quality images throughout the weekend. If you would like to talk about organising a shoot for your van then talk to me (Jon) at the show, I’ll be hanging around the stall or near my van.

Buy posters online, here.

Quoted from T2D – “On Sunday 14 March 2010 the centre of town will be closed to all traffic except for drivers of Aircooled VWs. Witness hundreds of VWs of all age, style and colour on parade through the beautiful Belgian streets (500 – 1000 cars are expected). Soak up the unique atmosphere of this memorable occasion – a must for all VW enthusiasts.”

My split was still on the ramps at Type 2 Detectives at 3pm and we were due to leave in a little under 3 hours. The van still had to have the louvered windows refitted. Anyway, not a problem, all was finished and I met Steve and Tim on the A11 ready to drive down to Maidstone for the UK night stop before we got the train early hours on Saturday morning.

Saturday 13th March started at 5:15, quick shower and we were on our way to Folkstone to get the train to Calais.

We had several pit stops en-route to Ninove. Was great to see the convoy grow as the day progressed. A few pics from the days drive down.

Simons rat bug looked awesome and won the T2D trophy on Sunday, congrats.

Few pics below from the Witkap Brewer. Great location for photographing vans, parts of it looked derelict like some of the vans. Perfect for some HDR pics. Free beer too which was welcomed after a 4 hour drive

Some very nice early bays.

Cool deco house out the back of the brewery.

Loved the 17″ Radar on this bug.

One of my fav from the show, super slammed rat bug. Love the trike on the roof

Splity showing off his new interior. Big thanks to Simon from Interior Motive for sorting us our with a super cool pad inside.

Next show, VolksWorld 2010, 28th – 29th March – hope to see you there

Neil and Mandy from Prosign are extremely talented sign writers and have done some amazing work on VW’s for several years. Once I’d seen their work I knew they were the right guys to design our Fen Studios logo.

I drove down to Croydon this morning on a very wet and windy day. It was great to meet Neil and Mandy and see some more of their fine work. Neil sketched the logo on the van and even did me a sample silver leaf letter to take home. We decided to add silver leaf for the main fill of the letters for the logo and I think it’ll give it that extra hi-end wow-ness blingage!

It should be ready next week and I cannot wait. I still cannot believe they freestyle handwrite this stuff, awesome. Going to look super sweeet

Update

Its all done and back home. I was absolutely stoked when I saw it for the first time in the workshop. Neil and Mandy had done a great job and I really like the details and subtly of the ‘www.fenstudios.com’ on the back door. Exactly what we were after, our logo on the van, not too bling bling, but something very professional and would add to Splity aged look and not make him look like a billboard.

See below for a few images of him looking mighty fine in his new livery.

See the van emerge from the workshop in East Croydon, special moment

The new Goof and Brasilia went down a storm leaving the water-cooled boys confused and bewildered, loving it all the same.

More pictures to follow of the event. Keep an eye on my Flickr account for latest pictures.