how does one go about restoring a head badge?

[sherlylock]

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Going to hand paint mine with enamel paints (like the ones used to paint model kits as a kid).

no fair, you've got higher edges on yours![/quote]

Haha.....good point. I've got a fairly steady hand but those edges should make life a little easier......just need to dig out the Humbrol enamels!

Have you got a good reference image of what your badge should look like?

 

[tehtehteh]

yeah like this

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images ... dbadge.jpg

though mine has such little relief I couldn't just paint it and polish it to bring up the edges, I'd have to get it spot on with the brush

I've seen decals out there that look like the badge, I wonder if one would go directly on it

 

[Spokesmann]

This is my spare brass one, much thicker and robust in manufacture:

A mint thin metal one being attached to a Flyer...

 

[tehtehteh]

my one matches the top one in style, I'm not saying mine is brass, but just that the proportions of my badge are the same as that, the bottom looks differenent like thinner letters etc

 

[COUPES]

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I was lucky to get two of each NOS badges. They weren't cheap but they do turn up.

 

[OldFrank]

post a pic of what that cyclist looks like after you have repainted him freehand!