Bowtie overlay vs painted bowtie
 

Just seeing everyone with the painted bowties, if you painted them yourself, or ordered the vinyl bowtie overlay?

I wanted to paint mine body color and leave the chrome trim as it is. Thus only having the gold bowtie now be silver (body color). I ask because I don't really feel like painting the rear bowtie on my trunk lid, being 1. pita 2.overspray. I've seen there is bowtie overlays, but I know they don't cover the gold edging around the bowtie. They only over the 2D "face" of the bowtie. So if I went with the overlay there would be the silver face, gold "edge" then the chrome outline.

Anyone? Pics? Steps to how you tackled the painting if you did it?

Hope all this makes sense to you guys

UPDATE: I found the How to paint your bowtie. Big help. So now I guess I'm just looking for anyone who has the bowtie overlays.

i painted mine. it was hella easy and came out great. the only thing is that it took some time to wet sand them and make them nice and smooth and shiny. but well worth the extra work

I would honestly just paint it. It will take you a total of like less than an hour. I painted mine black and left the outside chrome. It looks awesome.

But taping off the chrome is a royal pain in the ass. It took me a very long time just to do 1 bowtie. I can't imagine how long it would take to do multiple SS badges. I can see the vinyl being a great and easy option assuming you take your time with alignment and do it correctly. But to each his own.

It's pretty easy to paint urself and there's also a how to in the forums if u have any questions how, me I ordered a designed graphic from 24designs.net and am gonna paint my back bowtie after I get back home from new York

I painted mine myself. Just masked off the chrome and painted the gold part flat-black. Looks great on the gloss-black car. Took like 30 minutes including masking, spraying and drying..

i just put vinyls on my bowties on yesterday.. i just took a piece of vinyl and cut the edges with a razor.. it took about 10 minutes to do. and the best part about it is if you dont like the color, u can just rip it off and try a different color. but yes, putting a vinyl on a 3D surface will leave you with a hair bit of surface showing (only on the 4 inside corners) if done correctly. it honestly isn't noticable tho

Really? I taped off my chrome pretty easy and whatever parts I missed that got paint on it I just peeled off. Since I didn't sand the chrome none of the paint stuck to it. The SS badges I would definitely get vinyls for because that chrome is way too thin to even try to tape off.

half the time even if you paint the chrome paint wont stick to it. anyways definately paint it. i think a vinyl over lay wont contour to the lines in the bowtie that well. its not hard to do. i did mine black.

vinyl laid fine over mine.. just take your time and it works fine

yoou dont need to tape it off, you can pry off the bowtie from the chrome, they are two pieces, super glued together

We have a winner. Take a razor blade and a screwdriver, and separate the two pieces. Then you can be a lot more careless painting it, then just glue it back together. Same for the one in the rear, but IMO the rear one should be left off.

paint that shit
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I just painted mine. When I painted mine the first time I took the time to tape off the chrome and the second time I just painted the entire thing and used my fingernail and took the paint off the chrome. It won't stick the chrome. Just make sure you peel it off before it sets up to long.

That actually looks really cool color matched silver - even on the rear one. I generally hate the rear badge, but that's legit!!

what?mine

Yes.

This may be a dumb question, but to the guys that removed their badges and replaced them or relocated them, what are you using to get them back on the car? (glue, double sided tape, etc.)

most people on here use double sided 3M tape from what i know

^^This

oh well thanks u good sir

The front is held on by two 10mm nuts and the rear is held on by adhesive. 3mm double sided adhesive tape would work well for the rear emblem. Just make sure you clean all the old gunk off the car and the back of the emblem before you put the new stuff on.

That's what I figured. Thanks guys

All done!

http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicle...jpg?1267193825

looks really good