Blacked out emblems?

[silverbullet4x4]

Has anyone blacked out any of the emblems on their truck? Specifically the powerstroke emblem and f-series badges? If so what process did you to through to ensure a long life?

 

[BlueWaffle]

mine aren't blacked out but I painted them to match. just hit it with some rattle can color match paint, then a couple coats of clear and that's it.

 

[silverbullet4x4]

That's a good look for your truck, i was thinking something similar but possibly masking off the letters in each badge an doing a semi or flat black. Just curious if anyone had done it and how it turned out.

 

[BlueWaffle]

that would be cool but i don't have near enough patience to mask off each letter haha

 

[silverbullet4x4]

No kidding, moneys tight and always looking to do the little things while not spending too much.

 

[Super 6.0]

paint matching always looks good but i never thought about the badges, i actually went the opposite direction with mine and it turned out pretty good on a white truck

 

[UPINSMOKE]

I just scuffed and rattle canned the international emblems on my truck. No clear or anything. They have held up very well to tons of automatic carwashes... but they are finally starting to flake off.

 

[STROKER]

paint matching always looks good but i never thought about the badges, i actually went the opposite direction with mine and it turned out pretty good on a white truck

Looks great man what did you use to get the black off the badge?

 

[mallardslayer07]

Tape off the emblem and use acetone.Thats what i did on my '97. It worked really well.

 

[STROKER]

Alright I might try that I was thinking about taking the black off and going over the whole emblem with black vinyl and cutting out the f350 so its pretty much the opposite of how it was think it would look good?

 

[TAMU_PSD]

Did you mean anything like this?

http://www.fordf150.net/howto/customemblems.php

 

[STROKER]

Yea kind of that looks good, woulda never thought to use chap stick

 

[Pstroke96]

if the ford ovals anything like the obs ones, which i think it is. you just warm it up. get under the edge of the clear plastic, keep it warm and pop it up. sand off the blue, spray paint any color you desire. let it dry and glue it back together. id post up pics but photobucket id down for maintainence

 

[Lowdown89]

I know one member on here used the duplicolor trim pain which is the satin black look, it turned out really good looking

 

[Pstroke96]

 

[TripleE44]

I know the front is not like that anymore on the 05up trucks for sure. The rear may be, but the front has just a thin clear on it that you could never get off in one piece. The 08s are an even different story as the blue is just "paint" and no clear layer from what I can see. I've just put a sticker I made at my old job over mine.
Here's a pic where you can kinda see it. Its white with chrome writing.

 

[Whytry]

wow that looks awesome

 

[David S.]

I know the front is not like that anymore on the 05up trucks for sure. The rear may be, but the front has just a thin clear on it that you could never get off in one piece. The 08s are an even different story as the blue is just "paint" and no clear layer from what I can see. I've just put a sticker I made at my old job over mine.
Here's a pic where you can kinda see it. Its white with chrome writing.

same thing I did. Had a guy make me some stickers that fit over the factory ones. Had our company's logo put on them color matched to the truck. Needa get some current pics of the truck

 

[Dieselboy.]

I thought about blacking the emblem and making the letters chrome on a set of 05 badges. But I sanded and sprayed an old badge as a tester and the paint just rubs off ??

 

[Keanoknick]

I did this to my badges, before I put the Harley ones on the truck