Rally dash redo

Mattax said

While we're talking about it. Here's the reverse of the bezels.
Original. The factory had flat black painted into very specific locations.
I do not know how important the off-white color is and how that plays into the diffusion of the light into the gauges.
It seems important enough that the metal lens holders are painted the same color.
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Hence my comment about if I did it again, I would remove and install the lenses myself.
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One possibility I'm looking at is to mask and spray with an airbrush using SEM Color Coat. This is not my area of knowledge or experience so it will depend on what I can buy and get help with locally. But the folks at Vacu-ornametal said that particular line of paint will adhere to the chrome, so that seems like the best way paint to use.

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I'll look at the smaller text again. I thought it was painted white but maybe it was chrome on the face too. I always repaint the backside/illuminated cavity flat white after rechrome. I even have a sacrificed set of lens for masking ( 1 set was in sad shape anyway ).
Here's a point to consider.... Many owners have had these bezels rechromed. I've never seen one comment about what effect all that chrome has on the lighting. We look at it and assume a lighting engineer went to a lot of trouble to control and level the light.
The metal rings were once raw metal, then painted both white and black. If all these strange markings were simply from their fixturing, why not all black? I think we assume correctly. Put it together as is and light it up?
If it comes to your wanting or needing another glove box script, I have plenty of them.