Here’s the only other free hand shield I used as you can see it has a wavy shape to it. I now apply just a little bit of brown making it a stronger tone near the center and fading it down to the bottom of the emblem. Move the shield around remember

we are trying to give the illusion this emblem is made up of 3D letters and numbers so the line will not be perfectly straight a crossed the emblem.

Don’t put the brown away just yet as you will need it for the next step. Here’s where it gets a little tedious. Because these are small I use each number and letter I cut out, the positive parts of the stencil. Decide which direction the light source is com- ing from and place the pieces opposite of that. I placed them slightly toward the top as most of my light source is coming

from above. Now sparingly apply brown to the exposed areas of each letter and number. On larger art it looks really good if you hit the corners with a darker tone, apply enough brown until you achieve the shadow effect you want. Now take some white and apply it to the opposite side to get your highlight from above.

Here’s a reference shot so you can see just how small this emblem re- ally is. The owner wanted a red stripe inside the K so I cut stripes in the letter before I cut the letter out. If you’re using candys or base paints as I am sometimes the red turns pinkish over white so I sprayed some brown and the red over that. It’s so small that I can’t do much to show depth in the stripe but I did add some rust pearl mica to the red, that ought to do something special, I hope.

Here are both side plates side by side this is the only time you will see these side by side as once installed back on the motorcycle they are on opposite sides of the bike. This is after three coats of clear has been applied, notice that the dusting of grey I did on the top of the backing you can now see.This is just a basic way of doing chrome I hope you found this article helpful. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32