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Author: Minari001
Date: 2023-07-26 13:00
Festival silver logo's black writing has been removed, So, I'm looking for the way to fill it black again. is there any good solution to do this? I have a idea to use acrylic paint primer (Vallejo black, this one uses for plastic model painting.). is there any other way to do this?
Post Edited (2023-07-26 16:11)
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Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-07-26 17:07
Getting good results comes down to how deeply etched and cleanly defined the lettering is, so carefully cleaning it out and defining the borders is a good start.
I've found acrylic water based products to work well but it's good if they are dried out enough to be a bit pasty and you rub them in with a finger. That way this thicker paint will not tend to wipe out when you clean away the surplus, something I do with a cloth formed into a flat pad, very lightly moistened and passed " floatingly" over the logo .Best have several small pads to hand, discarding them as they absorb the surplus paint. If you clean out too much paint from the lettering you can re-do it again AFTER its dried.
I use a product called " Finger Wax" which is not wax at all but acrylic, and comes with a somewhat pasty consistently.
I expect that Chris P knows more about restoring logos than me however, so maybe wait to see if he chips in .
Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-07-26 17:44
I use car touch-up paint which is most likely acrylic, strong magnifying glasses and a steady hand to fill in the logos on the silver plated badges on Buffets. Any mishaps can be cleaned with acetone.
You can also use Tamiya model paint which is alcohol based and also dries relatively quickly and any rogue bits can be cleaned with alcohol, or if left to dry, carefully rubbed off with a chopped down reed and a careful going over with alcohol to remove any residue.
Your best bet is to fill in the hollows level right to their edges (surface tension will help here) and then let the paint dry naturally and the paint concave itself into the lettering as it dries. Lay the joints down and level while the paint is drying.
I don't know what sort of paint Buffet use, but it seems to have a rubbery consistency - both the black lettering on the oval badges and also the red lettering on Tosca badges.
Another thing you can use is Yankee wax which is a hard wax, but you will need to melt it into the lettering and then level it off with the side of an old reed, then buff over with a damp cloth to give it a shine, but it's not as easy to do as the wax may not adhere and some bits of the logo can come adrift like the metal letters set into old gravestones.
Page 41 of this list has the Yankee wax used to fill in the gaps around the badges as well as the gold, silver and green crayons for logo restoration, although the regular foil stamped Buffet logos aren't the easiest to restore given how lightly they're stamped in the middles.
https://www.buffetcrampongroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spares-BC-Repair-Parts-FR-EN-DE_OCR-1.pdf
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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