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Re: any good suggestions for this logo restore?

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

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Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
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