More little stuff on a little emblem. I decided to spend a little time on it while I wait to drive out to Sand Springs to work on a beautiful new BMW around noon today.
Here's a side view where you can see it has a collar on it to hold the clear plastic cover in place.
I used a razor blade to carefully separate the collar from the base and you get these four pieces. The collar itself has silver paint round the rim (silver sharpie to the rescue). I'll sand the clear cover to remove the scratches and gouges and clear coat it like I did my taillights.
Here's a close up of the shield.
I never really looked at these closely before, so now I need to do a little studying. I thought the background was white, but as you can see the top surface is a spun look. On the right side i used a little spit and my thumb and you can see where it peeled a coating back a little. I wonder if this was just clear originally or a pickled whitish look? You can see the makers of the emblem didn't necessarily stay in the little squares for the red, white and blue. This is good for me. It will be a slight pita to mask those off for paint.
Here's a side view where you can see it has a collar on it to hold the clear plastic cover in place.
I used a razor blade to carefully separate the collar from the base and you get these four pieces. The collar itself has silver paint round the rim (silver sharpie to the rescue). I'll sand the clear cover to remove the scratches and gouges and clear coat it like I did my taillights.
Here's a close up of the shield.