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So I am color matching my bages, getting rid of chrome. I followed advice from a few posts here on the forum, but have a question for any painters in the group. I took the badges apart (doing front, rear ford logos and fender badges), sanded them down, primed them with an adhesion promoter, did three coats of color, then three coats of clear acrylic, all before putting them back together. So my question is, should I spray the assembled badges with the acrylic before installing? Would it help at all?
Truck is a 2020 XLT Sport. I redid the chrome in matte black, and the rest magnetic to match the truck.
This is just my thought but if you're doing the Ford logos and actually removing the lettering from the oval to do different colors, I would probably spray the reassembled piece with the clear acrylic. Those pieces are a snug fit I'm sure and even more so with so many coats of paint some of the acrylic may flake off but I'm no painting expert either lol.
You are probably out of your time window to spray any additional coats of clear without having to re-sand them to get new clear coat to stick. I would have done exactly what you just did, waited for everything to dry completely, carefully reinstall and then once it was on the truck for a few days to fully cure use a quality wax or ceramic coating to protect your new clear. Adding clear when they are assembled leaves the possibility of the clear coat "merging" the gap between pieces which most likely will start to chip and peel off later.
Last edited by ScoutDoc; Oct 12, 2022 at 08:25 AM.
Been a month on this thread but I might as well show the newest one without creating a new post...got the overlay from Etsy...painted the oval with the matte red pepper from krylon fusion and then put the carbon fiber overlay on. It's going to look good with the red/black 09 tailgate f150 badge, which matches the sides you can see in the pic (too cold to go out and take another one right now, but the fender badge coloring should give enough of a visual.)
the skew upward with the inset oval is intentional because the part will be below eye level on the truck.
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