Neither. Made the plate w/create poly, then extruded face out for depth. Lettering, using Text tool. Then Bevel Plus tool, thin them out alittle, and there you go. Fairly easy, actually. Eventually going to put the NY textures on the plate, so it looks abit more realistic. ...Altough, a bump/displacement map would be quite good too. Might make it look abit more real...Ill have to try that.