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Originally Posted by 02RSXs.owner
pink emblem? lol... i never seen one. i guess you have to custom make it.
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Originally Posted by chakor
any ideas on how to make one?  |
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Originally Posted by Cloud_Walker
Yeah, but I'll have to do some looking around local stores to see if the right materials are available before I waste my time typing a bunch of stuff.
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Yeah so I did said looking and did some experimenting, and the results were good.
Ingredients:
Your (1) or (2) 'A' emblems
(1) crappy notepad that you'll see below
(1) fine tip permanent marker
(1) X-acto knife or other sharp cutting tool
(1) pair of scissors
Some super glue or other strong adhesive.
Cost: about 10 bones
Time: less than 30 minutes per emblem
***Disclaimer: I have a crappy camera that takes at least a full second to capture an image, so some of the pictures ended up being slightly blurry because I couldn't hold either my hand or the camera perfectly still.***
Ok, so first of all, you need some sort of thin, waterproof, workable material to make the colored background for your emblem. Pink was actually pretty hard to find. But I found this at Target:
Tough, durable plastic of just the right thickness. The color reminds me of the Crayola crayon color Hot Magenta. Sweet.
Here's an isolated shot of our victim:
I used this for one emblem, but there's enough area for two.
So, bend back the binding to remove the cover:
Below you see the rear 'A' emblem I used. It has two thin plastic prongs on the back with some thicker white caps on them. These caps are what plug into the back of your hatch and secure the emblem along with the glue/tape you'll find between the emblem and the hatch...
Remove the two plastic thingies to expose the thinner prongs that are extensions of the emblem itself:
Measure the distance between the prongs (that's 22 mm):
Make two marks the same distance apart (22 mm) on the plastic:
Use your X-acto knife or whatever to cut out the holes. I just stuck the blade in there a little bit and twisted it around to kind of "drill" the holes in there. If you don't make them too big, the prongs will fit in there nice and tight to help hold the emblem and the backing together.
Take one (1) emblem. Apply liberally:
Trace around the emblem with your fine tip permanent marker:
Cut it out, combine the two, and
viola!
Secure everything with a bit of glue. Also, put some glue in the holes of the white plastic thingies before putting them back on; they won't stay on very well with that new layer of plastic in the way.
Again, that was the rear emblem I used. The front one is slightly different. It's secured by two clips that I'm 90% sure you have to break in order to remove it. It will have the same type of prongs as the rear one but without the white plastic caps. So in order to re-secure the front emblem, you'll need to use some glue. Just stick the prongs through their little holes in the plastic holder (on the front grill) and apply glue to the back.
You can do this with any kind of thin plastic material in whatever color you can find such a material in. There were some plastic plates (red and blue) that I saw at the store that would be even easier (and shinier!).
As I mentioned in the thread that started this (the eyebrows one), quoted from above, the other option for coloring emblems is to actually spraypaint the 'A' itself. That takes a lot more work and is less durable
and, in my opinion, is less good looking than this method.