I want to paint my bowties black, but I dont know what kind of spray paint to use, a little help please..?

I want them to look like this:

 

if you'd rather not paint them you can use vinyl its alot easier and can be taken off if you get tired of it

 

That would be alot better, where can I find vinyls?

 

get em from art supply shops, speed shop, but if your patient you can get vinyl real cheap off the net

Even ebay has decent vinyl one guy on here has carbon fiber emblems he used vinyl looks great!

 

Sweet, hey thanks alot.

 

I found the guy with the carbon fiber vinyls, they look perty nice to. Is there anywhere website I can buy just a plain black one?

 

any way to get a black bowtie with a chrome outline??

 

I have a black bowtie w/ the chrome outline. I just taped off the chrome before i sprayed painted it. Also use the spray paint that is made for plastic. i put a lot of coats on it. I think i put like 5 coats on mine.

 

did you remove your bowtie first, or did you just mask the hell out of your car? if so, howd ya get it off then back on?

 

I would remove the bowtie. It would take too much time to mask off the whole front of the car. I believe the bowtie is held on by 2 nuts behind the grille

 

do you have a pic?

 

I removed my bowties first. It made me feel so much more at ease. I just used fishing line to remove the double sided tape between the chrome backplate and the bowtie. I then cleaned up the double sided tape, painted the emblem, put new double sided tape on, and replaced the bow tie.

Edit: I also used a clear sealer over about 6 coats of paint.

 

Ok, so I couldnt find any vinyal, so I just spray painted it with about 4 coats of paint and it came out to be really nice, I also debaged the trunk of my car (except the bowtie, which I may paint aswell). So here are a few pictures before I put them back on my car...





Tell me what you guys think, ill get some more pictures up as soon as I get it back on my car, and after I paint the rear one!

Also, do the "gm" emblems ( on the side of the car ) have the double sided sticky stuff that the "c-o-b-a-l-t" letters have ( cause I want to take them off also). Thanks.

 

Oh, and I also painted the letters C-O-B-A-L-T black, I was thinking about putting them back on, but im not sure how to.. do I just buy some more double sided tape? I kinda wanted to copy what importkiller and co-yellow-balt did to there letters.. looks like this..



I really like that. But im finishing up mine, they need 2 more coats and they will be all black. I just need to know how to put them back on..

 

looks sharp so far

 

To put them back on just get some double sided tape. I put my letters inside on the passanger dash. The peice above the glove apartment.

 

ok so let me get this straight, to take the front bowtie off its just 2 screws u gotta remove from the back and thats it??

 

I like the lettering it looks sharp, I'm thinking about removing cobalt from the back and the bowtie, just keep the SS on there but move it where the beginning of cobalt is.

 

BBQ Flat Black Rustoleum for my Bowtie here!

 

hold on boyz, for the front bowtie, those 2 bolts behind it come off and the sucker pops off??

 

Yep. You just unscrew it from the back.. and it comes right off.

 

ok cool, i wanna put my ss badge on the front, but what does it look like when the badge comes off?? do i need to cover those holes are will the SS emblem hide them?

 

The holes will show. This is why I painted the Bowtie black and replaced it!

 

Thats all there is to it

 

hmmm now im undecided on what to do, paint it or put the SS badge in there, i dont want anyone to see any holes lol