Blue paint

[Chuck]

What's the best way to go about shining up the plaques and the outsides of the letters? steel wool? some kind of polish? same kind of gunk is on the alluminum housing for the tail lights.....

also, the red stripe on the "land yacht" plaque is a faded pink...what's a good match for that? my "blue" isn't all that bad...thinking it was possibly touched up before.

[mdiggles]

Hi Folks,

Thank you all for the tip about the Rustolium royal-blue paint; I'll run down and buy some tomorrow. I rebuilt my tail lights on my '70 Caravelle and need blue for the groove in the aluminum casting. But that waste belt and the half belt higher up that used to have blue tape in the extrusion: There are dozens of ugly hollow-core Pop rivets holding on the extrusion and if I just paint it, those will show. Do you all think it shows not much so it is OK? I guess I'll paint it and see, all that can go wrong is I buy the expensive tape and fill it later; the paint can't hurt.

Thanks,
--Mike

Originally Posted by uwe

I want to restore my airstream letters, the Land yacht plaque, and the tailight housings on my 71 TradeWind. I am looking for the best paint to use, as well as for a matching paint code.
Also, I am looking for a source for the blue stuff that goes around the bottom moulding. Is this paint or is it tape? I went searching onthe web, but had no luck so far. Someone in this forum restored an older airstream name plate, not the individual letters, with Rustoleum royal blue, but it seems the letter should be a little lighter blue.Ulness it's all faded......
Help!
Uwe

[Lothlorian]

I took a small piece of old vinyl rub rail to the auto color store and used their paint chart to get an exact match. They made me a pint of blue, red and white. I matched the blue and guessed at the red and white.

I then went to a sign store and had them cut a vinyl sheet for the rub rail. They have computers now that do the job for you. It came out really nice. I pulled the strips off and pressed them on. That came out really nice.

The start of 73 Overlander restoration

SIU Bound

Brian