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Title: Horn Button Post by: crowbar on May 30, 2008, 08:41:26 AM Can anyone tell me the name of the red and blue colours on the horn button
Cheers Haydn Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: EffCee on May 30, 2008, 02:03:34 PM Red and Blue......I am sorry, I just couldn't resist ;D ;D
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: NosFEratu on May 30, 2008, 02:24:25 PM ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: colt on May 30, 2008, 05:28:22 PM I'm with EffCee, definitely red & blue.
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: 59fcholden on May 30, 2008, 05:39:40 PM no its blue and red :P
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: TTV6FC on May 30, 2008, 06:08:43 PM I just love the incredible level of helpfull information that is available on this site. ::) :D Hopefully Ken will know. ???
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: RET on May 30, 2008, 06:22:34 PM 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. Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: TTV6FC on May 30, 2008, 06:37:54 PM 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.
Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: crowbar on May 30, 2008, 06:48:20 PM 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 Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: NosFEratu on May 30, 2008, 07:12:52 PM 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 ;) Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: RET on May 30, 2008, 08:07:04 PM 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 ($2). Send him a PM to find out more. cheers RET Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: fe1957 on May 30, 2008, 09:54:03 PM 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 Title: Re: Horn Button Post by: FC0058 on May 31, 2008, 06:16:33 PM 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 |