Painting on pedals...?

[Megalith]

I have the above pedal, and what I want to do is remove all the yellow wording, and paint different words on in a different style etc. Might sound a bit pointless to some, but would be worth it for me!

Anyway, my questions are as follows;

• Does anyone have experience removing the yellow paint? Does it come off easily?
  
• What is the best type of paint to use for painting on it?
  
• And also, would the paint be as durable as what is on it now or would I need some sort of sealer?

If it would be prone to scratching off, I probably wouldn't bother going ahead with it. Thanks in advance!

[CliftonBonney]

Can't help you with removing the paint. Why don't you just buy a new enclosure, paint it how you want, and then move the guts of the pedal to the new enclosure?

[Megalith]

Well to me that would sound like more hassle then using the existing one, plus I don't think it's easy to come by the same housing. Would have to be the same. (Basically at a glance I want it to look the same, but then closer, you'd see the wording etc. is different) Thanks anyway.

[Pandafist]

Just paint the whole thing flat black again, and then use a semigloss yellow (acrylic I'd think) paint over lettering stencils.
Your local hobby/art store would honestly be a better resource for this type of inquiry. Just saying.

[DannDubblewe]

I would think a high quality spray paint would work best for painting the entire enclosure, and then using a paint brush and acrylic paint to achieve whatever it is you want on the outside. Perhaps finish off the entire thing in a flat or semi gloss spray polyurethane or sealer of some kind.

I doubt your local hobby/art store, for this particular inquiry, would know what would be best paint for durability on a metal casing you would be stomping on. I can't see them doing anything more than pointing you in the direction of spray paint, acrylic paint, or the toy-model section.

Now that I think about it, perhaps you could take it to your local auto-repair shop and get them to powdercoat it for you? And then use acrylic over that? I'm not sure about that one, but I'm just throwing out ideas! I'm sure someone else around TB has had experience painting pedals.

[Pandafist]

Disagree. Here you're just going to get a bunch of dudes who PRETEND to know what's best... like you and me.

But yeah, combine all our responses and you got a decent plan of attack.
Outdoor/weather resistant flat spray, yellow acrylic with stencils, and some sort of (low or no gloss if you want the flat, original look) sealer spray x 2... done

eh... eh?