Bowtie customizations
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Joined: 06-12-2008
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From: So Cal
Hot pink vinyl overlay to match the pinstripe. It's obviously not perfect cause I did it myself and I'm new to this but from a few feet away it looks sweet.
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Joined: 06-23-2008
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From: So Cal
Okay, so I want to be cool and copy everyone else with the color and overlay...
I tried to figure the best way to do it...so for those who did that chevy lettering in one color, then the inside another how did you do it?
If I want the lettering and the outside edges to be black and the remainder to be an accent color, how would I do this? it's kind of the opposite of what you have pictured.
I figured the best way is to spray paint the whole bowtie the accent color. Then create a stencil of the lettering and transfer that onto the bowtie then hand paint the letters and edges black??
Or if I wanted to do it like most of you did, with the edge and lettering one color and the insde balck, how do i do it? Do I still paint the whole bowtie the accent color, then tape the edges off, then stencil the letters on by pencil and paint around all of it in black?
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Joined: 01-14-2006
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From: La Crescenta, CA
This guy make them in different color bowtie with the lettering cut out to show the color under.
http://www.tfbdesigns.com/
he also sells on eBay that is where I got mine for the '06 I had.
http://www.tfbdesigns.com/
he also sells on eBay that is where I got mine for the '06 I had.
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Joined: 01-04-2008
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From: Long Beach, Ca
Ratty,
As I mentioned, I had mine painted all white (Todd(UMA) ) did mine. Then I bought the black vinyl overlay that has the chevrolet script cutouts. When I applied the overlay onto the white painted bowtie, it appears that the outer edges are white, center is black and the cutouts are white as well.
As I mentioned, I had mine painted all white (Todd(UMA) ) did mine. Then I bought the black vinyl overlay that has the chevrolet script cutouts. When I applied the overlay onto the white painted bowtie, it appears that the outer edges are white, center is black and the cutouts are white as well.
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Joined: 06-23-2008
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From: So Cal
Ratty,
As I mentioned, I had mine painted all white (Todd(UMA) ) did mine. Then I bought the black vinyl overlay that has the chevrolet script cutouts. When I applied the overlay onto the white painted bowtie, it appears that the outer edges are white, center is black and the cutouts are white as well.
As I mentioned, I had mine painted all white (Todd(UMA) ) did mine. Then I bought the black vinyl overlay that has the chevrolet script cutouts. When I applied the overlay onto the white painted bowtie, it appears that the outer edges are white, center is black and the cutouts are white as well.
Thanks for the clarification.
*sees the light*
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Joined: 09-12-2005
Posts: 317
From: Parkland (Tacoma), WA
Daytona Blue ones!
I had my bowties masked off and painted the matching Daytona Blue Metallic, two-stage just like factory paint by a guy who does dent repair.
Then, I had a custom chrome script made up from a font I liked that is unique but evokes the feeling of the old scripts and laid that over the front bowtie. The rear bowtie I left plain and put a larger Chevrolet script that matches the front one on the bottom right corner.
Obligatory crappy camera-phone pics:
Then, I had a custom chrome script made up from a font I liked that is unique but evokes the feeling of the old scripts and laid that over the front bowtie. The rear bowtie I left plain and put a larger Chevrolet script that matches the front one on the bottom right corner.
Obligatory crappy camera-phone pics:
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