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40 Deluxe · 09-18-2018, 10:49 PM

When painting the tailgate, first spray over the letters with several good coats of the color desired for the letters. Then spray the entire tailgate with your body color. After the paint has set/cured, carefully sand the body color off the raised letters, leaving the letter color visible. Then clearcoat the entire tailgate if desired. The two colors will somewhat "fade" from one to the other but I think the result looks much better than trying to hand paint the letters.

09-18-2018, 10:49 PM	#2
40 Deluxe Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: now Kuna, Idaho Posts: 3,779	Re: Painting the embossed Ford script on tailgate When painting the tailgate, first spray over the letters with several good coats of the color desired for the letters. Then spray the entire tailgate with your body color. After the paint has set/cured, carefully sand the body color off the raised letters, leaving the letter color visible. Then clearcoat the entire tailgate if desired. The two colors will somewhat "fade" from one to the other but I think the result looks much better than trying to hand paint the letters.