painting the valve covers

[73CustomDeluxe]

so i painted the valve covers on my truck and thought they turned out pretty good.
here's what they stared out as







so i pulled them into my dads shop to prep them. here they are off.



then sanded and wire brushed them.



here i pulled them outside to prime and paint.

heres one primed



i decided to do orange on black since the middle is raised and i wanted a black bow tie in the middle. so first i taped off the outside and did the orange.








then i taped off the orange. i printed and cut out a bowtie to use as a stencil and gently cut out the tape.



after that it was ready for the black paint
 


and here is the finished product









not show quality or anything but i thought they looked good.

 

[choptop]

They do look good, but it looks like you need to do some more cleaning and painting under there. The new paint highlighted all the dirt.

[bake74]

     X2 on what choptop said, if you started painting more stuff pretty soon you would have the whole engine bay cleaned up.

[73CustomDeluxe]

Yeah I painted the breather when I first got it because it was all surface rusted.

[hotrod24]

Wow the valve covers turn out great, Nice work...

[Ben_Greenberg]

Seriously nice work on the covers! Little by little I was hoping to do the same thing.

[LTZ C20]

Those do look good. And the orange on black was a really good idea. I like it. Now paint the inner fenders, radiator support top cover, the fan and the air cleaner box to match lol.

[illinoisk30]

Nice attention to detail. They look great.