painting club plaques??

we just got our plaques from O'Briens and i wanted to ask those who have painted theirs about how they did it. did you use krylon paint in the can? what grit of sandpaper should i use to get down to the shiny part? thanks for all your tips.

 

I used one-shot and one of my smaller lettering brushes,took a while but turned out good.
I won't do the whole clubs in one sitting though .Well theres only a few of us anyways,like it should be......Shiny

 

Nice lookin' plaque

Gee for three bucks I would have paintd it with Centari and belt sanded it on my 4 x 164 stroke sander with 100 grit

Krylon will work fine on that bead blasted finish. Want it to look real nice? Sand it with your DA at 100 then 220 then 320 then 400 and then buff it out to a nice polished finish. Then paint it with the Krylon (after getting all the polishing junk off with some lacquer thinner) and wipe the paint off the polished raised surfaces with a fuzz free rag wrapped around your finger. It will take two or three coats and wipings. Let the last coat set up and then dip your ragged finger in some reducer or thinner to get the polished surfaces fully depainted. Easy on the amount of thinner on the rag or you'll get it into the background you'll be painting it again (the voice of experience.)

Thanks for the order,

Dennis

 

I powder coated mine with my Harbor Freight home powder coating kit, then went over the raised edges and lettering with the DA. Finished with 300 grit, but didn't polish.

Hemi-roid

 

Just paint them with whatever paint you like and then clean em up with sand paper -- you can do it by hand or with a DA -- I use my die grinder with 3m roloc rubber dics that wont take any metal with them.
Nice lookin plaque by the way.

 

Spray can special, 2 minutes of sand paper, spray can clear, we are gone!-MIKE

 

Can someone tell how to make these plates, are they pressed or "cut-outs"?

Mikael

 

Move up the page to answer #3. Talk to Dennis from O'BRIEN TRUCKERS. He's the man.-MIKE

 

you can do the vaseline trick too.

 

We send our plaques to be tumbled in walnut media to polish 'em. Then we paint them and wipe the paint off the shiny part.

What that guy said about Dennis at O'Brien is the truth.

 

Hey B,

I sprayed it with a little aluminium primer, then painted the whole thing Black [ gloss spray can black ] , then used a DA, and slowly took off all the raised letters, its not finished, im gonna use some really fine **** at work today and then clear that ***** :

 

Just take some paint left in the spraygun cup and pour it into the plaque and let it self level. Worked great for my buddy, and the plaque matched his car. Easier than the sand, polish, spraybomb ,and scratch off the almost dry paint with my fingernail approach I used. Took about a month to grow the side of that fingernail back.

 

I used Testors model paint and it worked fine

 

Nice.
Dennis is working on our plaques right now and I hope they turn out just as nice as yours.
Greg, The new plaques look awesome!

 

hey L, looks good, ya did a good job, ya want to do mine??

 

I use a 3 m red wheel on my grinder it leaves a nice finish. Then I paint and wipe with a rag and thinner . Final details are done with testors and a small brush. Ill try and post pics.

 

hi dennis.. i realised i never did give a call to tell you how pleased we are with your work. the plaques came out ***s, thanks for doing a bang up job!!

cant remember exactly what the dollar amount was per plaque but it was very reasonable, workmanship is excellant and delivered in a timely fashion.

shameless plug: shop at O'Brien Truckers

thanks again dennis.

 

I used one shot on the raised area and flaked the lower areas. I'll try to post a pick. You can use any paint and a little sand paper on the raised area or a small lettering brush and some one shot on the raised area.

 

what he said! dennis is the man! mike