Blacked out babdges, CLearcoat?

So i blacked out my badges and im happy with the results. the question is do i clear coat and forever have those little imperfections or let them be b/c the paint wont wear down enough to worry about.

I put 3 coats of krylon fusion gloss black on, im having troubles getting all the lent off of them and i know i can wash the lent off once installed but if i clear coat and theres a few pieces lingering im screwed

help

 

dont clear coat them unless you want them super shiny.

 

yea im pretty happy with how they look now, so cool that means i might get them installed tonite

 

nice...........pics when you get a chance.

 

Holy crap dude, You've been a member for 3 months and you have almost 3k posts .
Sorry for the tangent haha. Pics when you get a chance though! I've been thinking about doing this also

 

painted

 

any badges i should leave off, save for the satoshi grill?

 

Nah, you did 'em all, show 'em off! Then in a month or two you can take more off.

 

the tailgate has sooo many though, i think i might leave a couple off like the tacoma on the left and the sr5 maybe

 

On the tail I'd probably put on Tacoma, SR5, and V6...

 

I left off the "TACOMA", "V6" and "SR5" from the tailgate...

and no clear coat here either...

 

mudfish u got a better ass shot

 

Badges look sharp, leave them the way they are.

 

im come to the conclusion no clearcoat but i might leave off a couple on the back havent figured that one out

 

Yeah I also used krylon fusion black and really liked the end results. Not to glossy at all! I also thought about taking the smaller Toyota emblem off the tailgate but never got around to it. Might do that this weekend, who knows!

 

yeah...leave them as is. Lookin sharp!

 

I only put the door tacomas on. I left the tailgate emblems off and used the tacoma from the tailgate for my grillcraft in the front.
Sorry for the vrappy cell phone pic.

 

now, is it hard to remove them from the truck ?
what holds them on there?

also what works best to remove ?

 

fishing line and the daily sun work awesomely...and any leftover glue....some goo gone will do the trick. a double sided adhesive hold them on, and 3m tape works great to reinstall them.

 

easy to remove with some strong fishing line, as alot will recommend, i used 8# b/c i had some it kept breaking but still only took me around 20 minutes to take all the badges off... i left the adhesive on so that i knew where they went when i was going to reinstall got that off with goo gone also very easy... hardest part of the job was cutting out the new adhesive, which i used 3m dbl sided tape, to the badges