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**Dan in Pasadena** · 04-18-2017, 10:24 PM

Resurrecting this old thread because I want to paint the white background on my '55 side badges and I thought I would have to do what Russ posted.

I was at The Car and Truck Shop today waiting at the counter and was looking at their repop badges. The letters are unpainted on the side and I was thinking about how to do it. I remembered someone said to apply old fashioned rubber cement on them, wait til dry then CAREFULLY use an Exacto blade to cut and peel off the cement where you want the paint to go.

I have a perfect set of original badges that someone had rechromed but never repainted. I want mine original so I am going to try this. Maybe with Plasti-Dip in case they come out lousy! Lol. Has anyone figured out another way that works?

04-18-2017, 10:24 PM	#4
Dan in Pasadena Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Glendora, CA Posts: 6,331	Re: which brand paint, and which color red, for the red paint on hood and fender embl Resurrecting this old thread because I want to paint the white background on my '55 side badges and I thought I would have to do what Russ posted. I was at The Car and Truck Shop today waiting at the counter and was looking at their repop badges. The letters are unpainted on the side and I was thinking about how to do it. I remembered someone said to apply old fashioned rubber cement on them, wait til dry then CAREFULLY use an Exacto blade to cut and peel off the cement where you want the paint to go. I have a perfect set of original badges that someone had rechromed but never repainted. I want mine original so I am going to try this. Maybe with Plasti-Dip in case they come out lousy! Lol. Has anyone figured out another way that works? __________________ '55 Big Window Shortbed, Drive-It-&-Work-On-It slid down the "slippery slope" to a Frame-Off Rodstoration! LQ4/4l85e/C4 IFS/Mustang 8.8 rearend w/3.73's Dan's '55 Big Window "Build" - Well, Kinda!