the bonnet badge is in good nick and looks like the original one, so I want to keep it. The (?enamel?) colour is rather worn though, does anyone know a good way to refurbish it? or do I need to put up with the worn look if I want to keep the original?
I've used oil based model aeroplane paint on car badges. Humbrol 'enamel' paints work well, especially the gloss colours. Probably cheaper than nail polish too!
Maybe an idea for the missus then! Model aeroplane paint! that is about, let's say £1,25 instead of £15 or more for something like Rimmel (not that I use it tho, I prefer model aeroplane paint)
humbrol stuff is quite Ok btw! I have used it for years, before starting on a 1:1 car
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Onne if they are charging £15 a bottle for Rimmel where you live then you need to report it to trading standards... it's one of the cheapest, about £3-£4 a go
Thing is, isn't it meant to be covered in a transparent material? At least [some] of the M bonnet embelems I've prodded at at shows have had a sort of translucent, actually, red hard substance in so you can see the texture of the 'gribbly' bit behind the M (but the chrome on all of them has been uniformly terrible. Mine the chrome's fine, but the colours all gorne). Doing it with paint'd mean that you couldn't see that....
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i'm guessing that the translucent colouring material is enamel (not enamel paint but "real", baked-on enamel)?
my own badge has opaque colouring on it - but that could be paint which a previous owner has applied after noticing that the original enamel had worn away?
just checking, we are talking about the same badge aren't we? the bull motif with wings on the side and the word Morris underneath, which goes on the centre of the bonnet underneath the bonnet flash? (as the saloons have that other badge thing in the rolly bit of their bonnet flash) (am i making sense?) Thought I'd check as on my bonnet badge there is no "M" (in red or otherwise); the only coloured bits are the bull, in red, with three wavy lines underneath it, in light blue, and the surround of the word "Morris", in light blue.
Ah, I was thinking of the flash, I suspect, though I'm not sure, that the badge (wiv Morris on it) um, yeah, that's probably the same semi-translucent stuff?
I'm not sure though, to be honest. Mine's got Red & Blue Humbrol Enamel in it! Ahhh, originality [grins].
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1969 Morris 'thou, 4 Door. 2010 Mitsubishi iMiEV. 1920s BSA Pushbike. 1930s Raleigh pushbike.
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Desires:
Trabant 601, Tatra T603, Series II Landy, Moskvitch-401, Vincent HRD Black Shadow, Huge garage, Job in Washington State.
I don't think it's enamel (glass melted on to it) - it doesn't look like enamel (too thin), it doesn't wear like enamel, and I can't imagine that 'they' would have gone to the expense and trouble of enameling them (a kiln to melt the stuff on etc etc). Not very helpful, but I think it's paint of some sort.
Thing is, isn't it meant to be covered in a transparent material? At least [some] of the M bonnet embelems I've prodded at at shows have had a sort of translucent, actually, red hard substance
The early cars had a different badge in the flying M (handle thingy). They were sepearate badges held in by some clip or spring. The later ones were all in one with some paint.
As for the LCV bonnet - I expect there's no flying M to worry about...
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Well........... the LCV bonnet badge is like the Series MM one (so is the flash). The series IIs are the same as the later Minor 1000 ones except the bonnet handles are different and have the inserts as opposed to the later one piece casting as has been pointed out.
Yup, I was mis-remembering my Skilleter - Series MM it is. Sorry, cheers for the correction (NB not sarcasm, since I seem to be misunderstood quite often!)
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