Well, the frame is gone, so this gives me time to work on these center caps. I ordered enough of everything to afford myself some mistakes. The plan was to practice on the caps I already had. I bought four NOS caps to use once I had perfected the process. I used this video as my reference, which explains whole procedure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krb1a3OhsS0
I made one practice run on a tupperware lid first. Here I learned to not use Elmers glue in the process. It made the final finish foggy. There hardest part was getting the blue bowties centered exactly right. I wasted a few of them trying. The resin process was pretty simple. It was self leveling as advertised and the air bubbles always rose to the top and popped. I had to help a few of them by poking them with a toothpick. I'm pretty happy with it. The resin is UV resistant, so hopefully these will last a long time. Here's how things turned out...
NOS caps
Remove the old logo. These were surprisingly hard to remove. They aren't stickers at all. They are metal and GM actually silicone them to the cap. I had to carefully pry them off and them use a razor blade to remove the excess silicone.
Then I applied the new machined stickers.
Carefully centered the blue bowties.
Time for resin. Because the machined sticker already had the normal doming resin on it when I bought it, the bowtie ends up looking suspended, which I think I kind of cool. We'll see what others think!
Even better, I think it looks great on the wheel. I can almost imagine what the truck is gonna look like finished! So far away though.
