Horn Button

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Can anyone tell me the name of the red and blue colours on the horn button

Cheers
Haydn

[EffCee]

Red and Blue......I am sorry, I just couldn't resist ;D ;D

[NosFEratu]

;D ;D   ::)

[colt]

I'm with EffCee, definitely red & blue.

[59fcholden]

no its blue and red :P

[TTV6FC]

I just love the incredible level of helpfull information that is available on this site. ::) :D Hopefully Ken will know. ???

[RET]

Haydn,

Ignore the gibberers.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I would counsel against attempting to repaint one yourself. Apart from the intricate design - which I've never seen successfully repainted by hand - there's the matter of vacuum-metallizing the back of the design to give it the necessary lustre. The latter can be done, but now that Rare Spares have a very very good reproduction item available, why would you bother?

If you need to know the colours for some other reason, I can only suggest taking a repro horn button to a spray painter to see if they can do a spot-colour match.

Hope that's helpful.

TO THE F4 GANG AND ASSORTED EGGERS-ON:

Posting this me-too drivel may get your post-count up, but it will also get you in the sin-bin if you keep it up. A number of your posts have been Reported to Moderators, and frankly the signal-to-noise ratio is not good enough. There will not be a second warning.

[TTV6FC]

Sorry,should have also mentioned that the ones available from Rares are going to be far better than anything you can reproduce yourself and will probably end up cheaper.The one I bought from Rares will certainly do the job nicely and I did entertain the idea of repainting one of my spare ones.Cheers,Jamie.

[crowbar]

Thanks Ken
All is OK I expected to get the obvious answers as soon as I finished my post
All taken in fun
I actually wanted to paint the bonett insert but have been getting nowhere with the local panel beaters and paint shops I thought that at least if it had a bit of colour on it , it would be better than the way it is now (transparent)
Looks like I may have to purchase a horn button and turn it down

Cheers
Haydn

[NosFEratu]

Hi Haydn

Just prior to RET's post I had been searching through the forum to see if I could find an answer for you as I knew this topic had been raised before.  Anyway.....

I've been deliberately running my bonnet and boot inserts transparent for almost 20 years now - along with a lack of paint in all badges. I've been happy with the look, but, that is my choice!

We had considered recently getting a horn button and using a linisher to try and "sand" it down to the correct size.  I didn't know if anyone else had any ideas on this method. At the risk of offending anyone - we have a spare FB/EK one were going to experiment with (cos that's late model stuff and it doesn't count, does it?) 

Kathi  8)
F4 ;)

[RET]

Thanks Ken

Looks like I may have to purchase a horn button and turn it down

Cheers
Haydn

Don't mention it, Bill  ::)

Maco from the NSW club has produced a bonnet button from a horn button. Send him a PM to find out more.

cheers
RET

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Thanks Ken
All is OK I expected to get the obvious answers as soon as I finished my post
All taken in fun
I actually wanted to paint the bonett insert but have been getting nowhere with the local panel beaters and paint shops I thought that at least if it had a bit of colour on it , it would be better than the way it is now (transparent)
Looks like I may have to purchase a horn button and turn it down

Cheers
Haydn

Hey Haydn,
               I have come up with a pretty good match, as stated the vacuum-metallizing is what make it great, howevr if you go to your localmodel\toy shop they sell tamiya model paint that is transparent,
x-27 clear red and x-13 metallic blue both acrylic, then back it with some chrome paint it is a pretty good match. Failly that buy a new horn button and get it turned down to the right size
cheers
Grant

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Hi Hadyn
Took me a while but I found the thread relating to this topic.

http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,12402.msg74774.html#msg74774

Cheers Jim