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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mattyuk, post: 11052220, member: 82596&quot;]Hi all. An update and a new question for you all. In the end I went with the below approach. It&#039;s not a perfect result but it&#039;s not bad and definitely better than what I had before.</p><p><br /></p><p>- I made a mould of one of the original fittings using cornflour mixed with sanitary silicone (diy modelling clay)</p><p>- I made some casts using the mould and some basic epoxy blue, with some fibreglass sheet inserted in the glue for strength</p><p>- Then I decorated once cured using Rub n Buff - great stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn&#039;t quite get a perfect colour match to the original but certainly not bad. Image attached.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course now I&#039;ve messed it all up - I wanted to clean the original leather top and I used a leather cleaner which said &quot;this will take the leather back to its original finish&quot;. I figured that was what I wanted and unfortunately had no invisible area to test it on so just went for it. All the black from the &quot;grain&quot; and the embossing has been pulled from the leather and it&#039;s now bright orange. Oops. I figured all the black was dirt but now I&#039;m not so sure. I&#039;m not sure if the bright orange was the original colour or not but it&#039;s not the look I want.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my cry for help is two-fold.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Is there a way to add the black back? I was thinking black shoe polish.</p><p>2. There is embossing which I want to fill back in with a black colour, but there is also gold embossed inlay which I don&#039;t - see photos. I&#039;m pretty sure I&#039;m in trouble here but any suggestions as to how to proceed would be very welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or should I just leave it bright orange??</p><p><br /></p><p>So close yet so far...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]535674[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]535675[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]535676[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]535677[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]535682[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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