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I've been trying to come up with a cool design for my front LS timing cover. I know you won't hardly be able to see it with the motor together and installed, if at all, but I know it'll be there so I wanted to do something cool for my first build. My painting skills aren't super strong and I haven't sketched since high school, but I figure with enough patience and forethought I can make one of these work. I have a busted timing cover to test on before I apply it to the one I'm using, so I can get an idea of what problems I'll run into doing something like this. Anyhow, wanted to put what I came up with out here and see if I could get some feedback or ideas from you guys. Unfortunately with the paint I'm working with, anything white would turn out silver unless I did something like an enamel paint for the white. Sorry in advance for the huge images, I wish I don't know how to adjust their size
Working off a generic LS timing cover
Inspired by the colonial US flag designed by Betsy Ross. Red and silver stripes, with the stars being silver and their background being blue
Vertical Texas flag. Red right half, silver left half, blue background around star, silver star
The Texas flag idea started to evolve a bit to work with the extra space leftover. Lettering would be in black or dark gray
Area around the star would be blue, the star silver, left half silver, right half red, lettering black or dark gray, Texas shape would be an outline. OR, maybe a lack of paint on both sides?
Same as the last one except with Texas shape filled in to match lettering color, black or dark gray
Any of those would be cool, but you said it yourself - How would you even see the artwork once installed? If I were you, I'd take that broken one, paint it up, and put it on the wall as a piece of art. But that's just me.
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