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Re: Painting a license plate

To: <Robert.Long@acs-inc.com>
Subject: Re: Painting a license plate
From: "Patrick J. Horne" <horne@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:50:47 -0500 (CDT)
Robert,

You could try painting the whole plate with the background color, then use
a painting pad or something like that to just run across the top of the
letters/numbers. You would have t otouch up the sides of the letters to
get things to look even.

Peace,
Pat

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 Robert.Long@acs-inc.com wrote:

> Dearest List,
>
> There was a car show here in Albuquerque a few weeks ago, and there
> was a booth set up selling license plates.  I told him I was looking for
> a Datsun Roaster plate.  He said he had something with letters and
> numbers on it.  In fact, they were SPL 311 and SRL 311 plates, so I
> bought an SPL 311.
>
> So much for the build up.  Any suggestions on how best to paint these
> with NM's colors (Yellow with Red letters/numbers)?  What about painting
> the entire plate yellow, and somehow dipping the raised letters/numbers
> into a pan of red?  Looking for ideas.
>
> Have a nice weekend, going Autoxing myself...Robert - 67.5 1600 - Abq
>
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