i had seen a colored emblem on ebay ( well actually its a gloing emblem) , and it got me thinking , hey my emblem isnt colored and it should be .
so igot to thinking , i bet some model paint and a steady hand could do a good job at it , well , ive got one coat on , and it looks like poop right now ( i guess i dont have as steady of a hand as i thought) but im going to put more coats on, and see how it turns out . im thinking now maybe i should have used touch up paint, that way the color would have been a perfect match, but for about $3 in paint and brushes and cleaner , i couldnt wait to try it.

ill post a link with pics of before and after each coat goes on . so give me a little time .

airrikk17

 

Something like this?

 

exactly , did you paint yours ? or buy it ? if you pianted it , what kind of paint did you use ?

airrikk17

ps- i found some really cool very close to matching blue metal flake at the local store , with a few coats it should match perfectly

 

How about this?



Teh emblem was painted black pearl and the background is blue sign vinyl. The emblem comes off you know.

 

man i didnt think about the vinyl sticker stuff , if this doesnt work out , i think ill go that route.

how hard is it to get the emblem off , then get it back on?

i got my brush guard on there so it is making it a bit of a pain to paint especially vertically . i was i na hurry to see how it would look too .

airrikk17

 

There are two emblem mods in Tech in the Cosmetic section.

One by Bob, and one by Butnut.

 

i msut have been blind , ive been looking at al lthe mod sections and completely missed it , now i feel some what like a newbie LOL

airrikk17

 

Yeah I used red vinyl. The first time I took the grill off, took me about 10-15mins and then another 5mins trimming the vinyl for the emblem and then another 1min to put the grill back on. Very simple mod for only 20mins tops Goodluck

 

Were I say to paint this, is there anyspecific reccomended tye of adhesive to use for re-application? I have some 3M spray-on stuff that's the stickiest stuff I've ever seen (beats super glue), and I'm sure that'll work but is there one specific type that is reccomended?

Zach

 

Please...Wash...Me...

 

Hey Wise Acre! It was in the middle of winter when I took that pic. (OK, you caught me... looks like that now and it's nice weather)

 

Just checking...

 

My first attempt to color the emblem was with the color matched touch up paint. A disaster. Spray paint may have been better, but sign vinyl is so much cleaner, easier and holds color and shine for years, mine still looks new, an occasional cleaning with a detail brush is all you need to keep it nice.