Brilliant! I'll give that a try, thankies.I seem to recall if you do a quick search on the tinternet a TV show called salvage squad classic cars. Drew went to a manufacture that specialises in old number plates. Are you trying to recreate the original six plate.
Maybe as a last resortGet the pressed ones and run a roller with while paint over.
I agree too, and earlier Land Rovers (109s and Lightweights) had silver on black as well. I only saw 1 Lightweight with white letters and that was a locally made 'stencil' number plate.I thought that the Defender era vehicles had silver on black rather than white on black.