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Painting these is super easy, I painted mine about 9 months ago.
1) Use dental floss and a thin PLASTIC pointed object to remove the emblem (I used a thin piece of plastic from packaging material and cut a point into it). The dental floss should help cut the tape until you hit one of the pegs used to position the emblem on. Then pull back on the emblem a bit with your finger nails and start slicing and poking at the tape with the plastic piece until the emblem pulls off the car.
2) After pulling the emblem off, I didn't have to use any chemicals to remove the remaining adhesive. Simply rubbed at the adhesive with my thumb till it balled up and came off. I used isopropyl alcohol on the front emblem tape when I rebadged that the second time.
3) Use 3M tape on the back of the emblem and a razon blade to trim it down. Keep protective backing on tape till after painting. Apply tape before you paint since you will need to trim with a razor blade.
4) Used Krylon Fusion (satin black I think) to paint the emblem per instructions on can.
So far, the Krylon has held up well everywhere except the front emblem (debris impact prone). It had a few paint chips, so I took it off after about 6 months and redid it with more coats to hopefully prevent chips.
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