Unfortunately, new emblems cost quite a lot, like 60 euros for a VOLVO emblem. I'm not keen on spending that kind of money on emblems. I got the originals left and I have been thinking about different ways to spruce up them up.
Method 1 is to spray them with rubber paint, it's easy to remove if it doesn't look good so I'm trying it first:
They actually turned out pretty nice, love the texture. The problem with this solution is that it doesn't last. The paint will peel off again and isn't very durable, you can just rub it off with your fingers. So this isn't what I am going with, but I think the look of the thing was worth showing.
I think if you have a car with a light color this could be very nice looking, but I wouldn't use rubber paint, I'd use something like bumper paint, I know there's one with a similar look. Then I'd also give it a coat of 2k clear (matte clear) to protect it. I am not sure if you could use that in conjunction with the rubber paint however, the clear and rubber might just both peel off together.
I tried silver metallic paint, just making it all silver. I do like the look even without the black edging. Some dirt got on the Volvo emblem so I was gonna sand it down and repaint but an interesting effect occurred...
I tried it against the cars paint, too bad it's pitch dark out right now. Daylight is getting too sparse around this time of year.
Looks real cool with the volvo factory colors inverted. That's definitely not a common look. Would look better if sanded to a higher grit and perhaps polished, or clear coated.
However I think the all silver look is the way to go against this color. I'll give it another look once some daylight arrives, but leaning all silver right now.
