Tailgate painting on my 69 c10

[mrein3]

I'm the inverse of you guys with the raised letters but let me show you what I did. I am FAR from a professional painter. In fact, I still use single stage paint. All the photos of my work are shots of stuff I sprayed myself. I use PPG Omni MP170 epoxy primer on bare steel and shoot Omni MAE Acrylic Enamel over that. I'm very satisfied with the results.

First off I recorded the factory paint job on the letters. They were punching these things out by the thousands so the detail work around the letters wasn't that great. You can see what looks like green over spray on the white letters. And if you look at the top right of the "C" you can see it is far from perfect.