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« Reply #5340 on: December 01, 2012, 09:53:06 PM » |
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"Saw this & thought of you", as our Post Office ads used to say.
A '57 Mercury grille badge. No indication of it's size. I've already got a monkey head bonnet badge, made by Steve Brock in Ireland, but we need to add a swageline around the back of the cab, under the back window, to tie together the raised swages in the doors. Wonder if we could add an M into it. Would that look cool, or too much detailing?
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« Reply #5341 on: December 01, 2012, 10:03:36 PM » |
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Nice idea. Mock it up out of card or even just masking tape and see how it looks and if you like it  |
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« Reply #5342 on: December 01, 2012, 10:11:55 PM » |
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Yeah, if I'm there tomorrow I will.
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« Reply #5343 on: December 02, 2012, 11:15:29 PM » |
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Lots of errands to do today, but called in at the workshop for a couple of hours this afternoon.
I mocked up the M in a length of welding rod. It's partly hidden behind the fuel tank, but if it was done in the same rod as we're using for the rest of the swage line & painted in body colour so it looks pressed as part of the original moulding, it'd look O.K. D'ya think it should be all one height, like the Mercury badge, or above & below the swage line, like this?
Reminds me of the 80s/90s heartbeat graphics you used to see on a lot of Beetles n stuff.
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« Reply #5344 on: December 02, 2012, 11:29:38 PM » |
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its differant,  |
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« Reply #5345 on: December 03, 2012, 04:32:16 AM » |
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i like it. as youve done it!
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« Reply #5346 on: December 03, 2012, 10:08:21 AM » |
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its all the little details that make it |
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« Reply #5347 on: December 03, 2012, 10:39:18 AM » |
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looks good i think
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« Reply #5348 on: December 03, 2012, 02:05:20 PM » |
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Yep, looks good as it is, great little touch!
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« Reply #5349 on: December 03, 2012, 04:22:26 PM » |
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That's given me an idea |
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« Reply #5350 on: December 03, 2012, 05:45:04 PM » |
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get it on the road!!! |
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« Reply #5351 on: December 03, 2012, 10:25:13 PM » |
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I like it,makes it your own
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« Reply #5352 on: December 03, 2012, 10:43:02 PM » |
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I'm gettin' it on the road Chris, honest!
O.K, I'll add making a swage line to the list then.
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« Reply #5353 on: December 03, 2012, 10:57:56 PM » |
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youre,s is a lot closer to being on the road than ,EMILY, is
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« Reply #5354 on: December 03, 2012, 11:02:45 PM » |
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Nah, you'll be on the road next week!
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