Below you can see the steps taken to refurbish two metal decal buttons for a motorcycle. The original paint was looking crusty, but it was still holding on tight!
Nothing a bit of sandpaper, combined with paint thinner, wire wheeling, and exacto-knifing can't handle . . . right?
First thought: " That's a whole bunch of tiny details."
Whose idea was it to put red paint under the white?
White paint attempt # 1. Thought: "This is lumpy and therefore a failure."
Scrape out the white and try the red paint. Thought: "No need to freak out. . . this will look decent in the end . . . and repeat."
After carefully slicing the red paint off the letters, I re-painted the white center, destroyed it and tried one last time. The result: shiny, but still a little lumpy. I tried my best so there you go.
1 comment:
That looks great! It will really add to the "vintage" character that is necessary for the ol' motobike. Great stuff!
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