Well you all talked me in to it. For the top lettering I sprayed a board and let the paint tack up then rolled the letters in the paint. That got about half of them. If I rolled it in something a little softer it may have covered better? Then I tried what modelers call dry brushing. Took a detail brush cut the bristles halfway sprayed some paint on a board let it tack up a little then brush the letters horizontally with the bristles flat. It didn’t matter if you got a little on the silver part it came off pretty easy with the sharp and flat end of a toothpick.
The bottom letters I gently used a point file then finished up with a stick sander.
