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@clubman might know how these were done. I think they were probably enamelled originally and he knows a thing or two about proper enamelling.
Application of the colour might have been done a bit like tampo, rolled on with a squeegee and maybe the excess scraped off if done by hand. Then oven cured which flows it out evenly on the surface. Polished up at the end. Just speculating though, I don’t actually know.
I’ve always felt that brass headbadges must have been quite an expensive item to put on a frame. First a set of stamps would have been made up to cut the shape out and then press the features into the badge, then the colouring, curing and polishing. It’s quite a lot of work!
Jonny69
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I was very tempted to have another go at the black background but I think I just have to say this is the best I can do. A fair amount of trial and error to get here. Some spots are better than others but in places there is barely any profile to the star and border, also the letters are not very deep and dents and dings didn't help.
I'm not sure how this is done in production - I guess when new, the profile is much better. I'd be interested if anyone knows!
Following tips on another forum I used chrome 'Bare Metal Foil' to mask the star and border and airbrushed the black background. I found it really hard cutting the mask, as I say there was barely any profile to run the knife along. Before this I hadn't used an airbrush before and even this final attempt isn't perfect - I think I needed to thin the enamel a little more to avoid the few bubbles.
I did the background first thinking the lettering would be easy, but it was a royal pita. I thought a flood fill and wipe would do it, but the curvature of the badge, shallowness of the letters and dings made it really tricky. I pretty much had to do one letter at a time and clean up the edges with toothpicks. [Cotton buds were another mistake along the way :)] Needless to say I effed up the background while doing the lettering so had to do that again afterwards.
I did a final polish with Autosol and applied a matt lacquer but think I might have buffed off most of the lacquer. Dunno quite what to do, the brass dulls pretty quickly, maybe I'll give it another coat.
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