Chris_1

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Thought I'd share this - it's an easier way to mask off intricate things.

Stuff like these letters can be ridiculously hard to mask off

What I did (after the intake had been cleaned up properly) is paint the area where the letters are with silver engine enamel (because that's the colour I wanted the letters to be) then let that dry for a day or so. I then got out my tub of wheel bearing grease - we all know what happens when you don't get the grease off something you're painting - and using the tip of my finger, very carefully put a very thin coat of grease on the letters, just the parts I wanted to show after. Then I sprayed the whole intake with the darker grey engine enamel I had picked out for my upper and lower intake colour. I let that dry overnight.


Next day it took about 2 minutes to wipe the paint off the top of the letters to reveal the colour underneath. I'll have to spend a couple more minutes yet, but you can see how it works.
I first used that trick to paint the insert part on chrome wheels with the openings. Just put grease on the chrome, spray into the holes, and clean the chrome back up. Beats masking tape for those tough detail things. Just don't get grease where you want paint and it only has to be a very thin coat of grease.

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I've done something similar before, but with mashed potatoes haha.. I sprayed the color of the background and got mashed taters all down in the cracks and crevices, sprayed the foreground color and stuck it in the sink a day later lol.

Chris_1

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Perfect !! I love it !

RockyF150

what I would've done is just painted it. and then taken a flat board with sand paper and scuff the paint off.

polarbehr76

rubber cement has worked well for me in the past

fltdriver

broncojunkie

My cousin showed me this trick many years ago using vaseline. Works like a charm!

teag

I've used a flat square sponge several times to paint elevated letters and trim.
Terry