Painted hood inserts

[VXcaver]

I decided kinda reluctantly that the Ironman decal needed to go (I'm more of a Jelloman - I tried to trade my hood insert to the real Ironman: Triathlete, but he wouldn't go for it) so I repainted it last month. The results are:

The Alien Bat

Here's a brief how-to on what I did:
I peeled the letters off, sanded the insert with 1000 wet dry and painted it with two coats of PPG Strong Black auto paint. The Ironman ghost came through again, so I had to resand and add another coat of black. I drew the bat image I wanted on the insert and airbrushed it with white PPG paint. Cleared twice with PPG clear coat and polished until it looks like black glass.

I saw a cool Calvin and Hobbes theme on someone's hood (Sorry I don't remember who!). I'm curious what else has been done?

[dtruax]

Nice job!

[Spike]

I have a few ideas on what I would like to put on my hood.

But I was planning to to use a vinyl decal.. and not until I was able to procure a replacement IronMan decal so I can return it to stock if I ever desired to.

Are you saying that after you peeled the IronMan off that it was still visible? Uh oh... Maybe a change of plans here...

[Navigator]

Very

[AlaskaVX]

If anyone needs another Ironman sticker, my brother works at a vinyl shop and can make them. I will guarentee that its cheaper than Isuzu. It may not be exact but as close as humanly possible with the computer program they have.

[Spike]

I remember we discussed your brother before.

I am not doubting he can do it. I guess we would need a really good scan of the original. None of the IronMan logos that I saw on the IronMan site (even ones at Timex) were identical to what is on our hoods....

[AlaskaVX]

Well I have it on my hood and we can just take the dimensions from that