Painting stepside tailgate letters

[Botietruck]

I'm ready to paint (bc/cc) the tailgate today on my stepside and looking for some close up pics of the letters-original paint if possible. A couple of questions...

Were only the tops of the letter white, or were the edges of the letters white also?

My thougts were to shoot the letters, then tape them off with fine line tape, and then shoot the tailgate with the body color, then clear. Is there a better way? Any thoughts/ideas? Has anyone done this before? What was your method?

I want to look as factory as possible?

And, I wil be shooting today, hopefully, so I would like to get some ideas pretty quick.

Thanks!!