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My refinish came out pretty decent I think. Tag came out of Napoleon, Ohio. I have seen several passenger plates, very few truck plates, and even less Farm plates for Ohio 1942. May be boatloads out there - dunno.

Plate is white white with dark green lettering.

Great job. You have way more patience than I do. 🛠

Nice job! What technique did you use? What kind of paint?

I looked at several techniques and ended up using more than one. I drill/wire wheeled it for cleaning, too wet outside to blast, then welded in the top holes and relocated them for newer plates. Then a little body work - primed, sanded, primed, then washed with comet and 2000 scotchbrite. I thot about using antique white for the base color but actually bright white is correct for this tag. Painted it laying flat with a very wet last coat -- then let dry 2 days. I used 4 teaspoons-- probably only used a teaspoon of that -- of the Dark Hunter green from the quart but that was the least expensive way to buy it. Letters are almost dry - checking TX test plate.

Tested soft rubber text roller on TX plate. Masked and started with big letters, kinda inside out. Rolled letters at least twice. Smaller letters were the easiest. Touched up edges with trimmed cheap brush. Cleaned up errors with q-tips/paper towels and mineral spirits.

I will run this tag on the back of the blue 42 rod.

I would have bet money that you rolled the letters on. That's the only way to get that kind of results.
I am guessing they were originally done with a roller wide enough to cover the whole width of the plates.
The issue with rolling the entire width of used plates is finding a way to force them to lay perfectly flat so that single swipe of the roller will cover everything.
Nice work, DL!