Interesting. Not a technique I have tried. When I was young, and could see, and
had steady hands, I fine lined raised lettering, pinstripes, and the rest, using
a quill brush. I am past that point, I fear, and will try your technique when I
get paint in.



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On Saturday, March 28, 2020, 9:32:56 AM EDT, Claudio DeLorenzi 
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Quick tip On painting raised lettering:
I have tried to use brushes and careful application, but my best results are
from making  a rag ’dauber’ (got the idea from those bingo marker thingies).

I tightly wrapped  a small square soft cotton tee shirt rag into a small ball,
lightly dampened it with naphtha, and then padded the enamel paint against some
clean cardboard to even the paint load, then daubed the firm ball on the raised
letters.
  This tends to give a tight even edge line and look very neat, much easier than
brushing.  It’s easy to build up thin coats to get bolder color.  A fairly dry
dauber is good, so that you learn to avoid filling the centers of e’s, o’s, p’s,
d’s etc (a q-tip clean up is sometimes needed to clean these up at first).
Make sure keep the ball tight, and to tap/pad the ball on some cardboard first
before touching the raised letters to prevent paint runs/letter “fills” from an
overloaded  dauber.
 Getting the right amount of paint on the dauber is fairly easy to learn so that
you don’t get too much or too little paint exactly where you want it.  Getting
the right movement so that you don’t wipe the paint off unevenly is a bit
trickier, but you’ll get it soon enough. The next coat tends to stick well to
the previous partially dry tacky one without going over the edge.
 Takes longer to describe it than to do it.

Cheers from Waterloo,
Claudio

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:59 PM Erik said:
‘ I have no appropriate paint for the raised lettering right now except red, but
will likely go with yellow, continuing the JD theme.’