Head Badge Paint restoration

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knew what sort of paint that i need to restore my old Coventry Eagle head badge as i just sent off the frame for a respray. The head badge is in abit of a state and i was curious to which paint i would need to get it back to its former glory. Also if it will need abit of a rub down etc.

The above is the head badge.
Also i would need some form of finisher on it?

Thanks for your time.

-T

First time thread on this site be kind if ive been a moron and this can be answered easily please direct me to the thread i have had a look at the search for this.

as above:
21 black
220 ferrari red
16 gold

as above:
21 black
220 ferrari red
16 gold

Thanks and thankyou to andy. Just the paint then no finishing paint? Il give it a little clean too.

Cheers

-T

Do it properly. Just put the badge as is back on the newly refurbed frame.

I do think that would look cool. But if you want to restore it Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too. You wouldn't need anything over the Humbrol - you might want to strip the old paint off with something first though. But I'd avoid anything that could fuck up a handsome head badge.

I do think that would look cool. But if you want to restore it Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too. You wouldn't need anything over the Humbrol - you might want to strip the old paint off with something first though. But I'd avoid anything that could fuck up a handsome head badge.

Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too... any decent hobby shop will stock it. If you insist on painting over a perfectly usable headbadge, I'd second the notion of stripping the current layer of paint off (white spirit/thinners/the missus' nail polish remover/expensive vodka) to avoid filling out too much of the detail.

Or just strip it back to the bare metal, polish it up nicely, and clearcoat it.

white spirit/thinners/the missus' nail polish remover/expensive vodka

Ha! Thought it was just me on a Friday night that lumped all those together.

Thanks guys so the general verdict is to keep it as it is and just re attach it after the job is done? I'm abit of a perfectionist but dont want to take away from the vintage feel either. For example the feathers has a great amount of detail and i don't want to lose that by careless polishing. I can do the above but also don't want to fuck it up in the process as i think its quite a rare head badge.

I do think that would look cool. But if you want to restore it Humbrol was the first thing I thought of too. You wouldn't need anything over the Humbrol - you might want to strip the old paint off with something first though. But I'd avoid anything that could fuck up a handsome head badge.

Fox i take it i probably couldn't just patch up the bits which are bare as they would look different to the original paint, curses the previous owner.

Thanks guys for all your help on this. So much nearer a choice!

-T

On second thoughts i think i will leave it as it is. The condition of the badge is not that bad. I think new paint wont do it justice (which any way i go about restoration).

Thankyou everyone for your time in responding to this, i value all your comments. I will keep this in mind in future builds.

-T