Need a little help with the badges.

[plskthompson1]

All right, I tried cleaning these badges up and did a fair job on them in my opinion. They aren't perfect by any means, but they look a lot better than what they did, I think.

I started by cleaning them with soap and water and letting them dry. Then I scraped off what I could of the old paint and tried to clean them up a little more. Then I sprayed them with some gloss black spray paint that I picked up at Wally World.

After that, I took some 2000 grit wet sand paper and went over the letters leaving just the background black.

Then I got stupid, I decided it would be a good idea to apply some gloss clear and the black started to bubble up, so I'm going to have to redo this set, but I still think they look better than they did when I started. When I do them over the gloss spray is going to have to stay on the shelf.

So what do you think. Be honest, I'm a big boy and can take it. :smilie_happy:

 

[BigAndrew]

:clapping: :clapping: :clapping: They look pretty good :salute:

 

[plskthompson1]

Yeah, they turned out OK. I'm not real happy with the clear, but I'll get used to it. It kind of gives it a hammered look over the black. I guess I'll go ahead and clear the rest that way they all match.

 

[AApple]

Don't look too bad from the pics! :salute: :clapping:

 

[roncar]

Look good to me. Anyone that has to nitpic badges on a ~30 year old daily rider, deserves to be ignored. I hand painted mine (except the clear) and am perfectly happy with them.

 

[BigAndrew]

Anyone that has to nitpic badges on a ~30 year old daily rider, deserves to be ignored.

Or to have me shove my size 15 boot up their @$$ :grin:

 

[plskthompson1]

I 100% agree. I'm some what of a perfectionist, but if I'm riding, I don't have time to worry if it's a little dirty when I get where I'm going. "This ain't no trailer queen."

 

[plskthompson1]

Here's the last of them.


And here is a side by side comparison.

 

[dan filipi]

I think they look damn good.

I did try to do them right a couple years ago and had blistering and looked smeared because the lines weren't clean and straight so these are what I ended up with in the end.
They actually still look better this way than they did.
I'm not very proud of them but oh well.

 

[plskthompson1]

Dan, did you take all of the original gold down to the black plastic? If not then they are still salvageable. I shouldn't say salvageable as they aren't broken, I should say they are still redoable (sp?).

If they were mine, during the next down time you have that you aren't riding, I would spray the whole thing black, use sandpaper, that's at it's strongest, a 240 grit, but I prefer 600, and sand all of the paint down to the original gold. Then I would spray them with a clear, and that would most likely take care of the problem. The trick is to let the black dry for a good length of time.

Or you could take them all off and send them to me and I could do it for you.

 

[roncar]

That's what I did. Paint 'em gold and hand paint the recessed parts after the gold was fully dry so I could wipe paint off the gold where it wasn't needed. A couple had reasonable gold plating still on it, so I did like plskthompson1 and painted black using fine sandpaper when dry.

Then clear coated when the rest of the bike was painted.

 

[dan filipi]

Or you could take them all off and send them to me and I could do it for you.

I might take you up on that offer, just no time left anymore.
What time I do have I want to RIDE!

 

[plskthompson1]

Or you could take them all off and send them to me and I could do it for you.

I might take you up on that offer, just no time left anymore.
What time I do have I want to RIDE!

Believe me, I know the feeling, but it's too cold to ride right now, and the wing is torn down for repairs anyway.

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

I think all you guys did a good job! It's amazing the attention to detail we give these old wings... :salute:

 

[Smokey66]

And I thought I was the only one that details his daily driver! Good work there guys!

 

[Montecman]

Great job on those badges, I dont have the patiance to do that detailed stuff. I just took all of mine off, filled in any holes and recesses & repainted it. I kept the "Honda" on the center front though. :clapping:

 

[Omega Man]

So...roncar, can I send you mine? :smilie_happy: No seriously? :?

~O~

 

[plskthompson1]

So...roncar, can I send you mine? :smilie_happy: No seriously? :?

~O~

You can send them to me if Roncar's not intetested. I need something to do until I can afford a few more parts.