Painting Raised Letters

Ive done three wheelhorse rjs this way and the results were impressive.

Painting raised letters. Then cover the letters with a light masking tape. Dont put too much paint on the pick as you dont want it to run beyond the surface you are trying to cover. Its is along the line of auto painting designs and flames hope this helps you or someone. Then remove the tape.

I found enamel works best for this. Paint is still wet wrap a piece of t shirt material tightly very tightly around a solid rubber sanding block of approtiate size and lighly soak it in wax and grease remover and wipe off the raise letters where you might of got some of the background paint on them. Just be sure you dont paint straight out of the can youll probably want to thin it just a little so it flows nicely with the pores of the cast instead of being too thick and laying there. It works for everything that has raised letters from real car parts to models.

I picked up the trick from model work. The length of the roller is 3 inches and may be cut to match the height of your letterssimply coat the roller with paint roll of excess paint on to newspaper or carboard mask around perimeter of letters and have at it. License plate machine of roller coating for painting duration. Then apply your over coats.

Home maintenance paint house number letter plaque raised letters by froggy duration. But you spray paint the raised letters with the color of choice and let cure this is your base. First spray paint the characters as shown below preferably a color that will contrast with the finished wood tone. What you need to do is paint the part or at least paint the letters white first.

This is a fun job to do it isnt difficult at all. The hard part is going to be cutting out each letter. Painting small raised letters in reply to jack bycraft 01 02 2012 065301 sounds like thatd work. Repeat until the surface is covered.