O-EM-OO9 workbench - now just three SR vans

[76043]

Next up, SR vans, I've got two Bachmann bodies and two Ratio kits. Starting on a 9' wheelbase vacuum fitted van for the Bachmann body. I'm raiding my Cambrian and Parkside spares bin for the underframe. Hoping to get all four finished by Christmas....

Anyone know the best way to remove Bachmann wagon lettering and numbers?
Tony

 

[James Spooner]

Next up, SR vans, I've got two Bachmann bodies and two Ratio kits. Starting on a 9' wheelbase vacuum fitted van for the Bachmann body. I'm raiding my Cambrian and Parkside spares bin for the underframe. Hoping to get all four finished by Christmas....

Anyone know the best way to remove Bachmann wagon lettering and numbers?
Tony

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Hi Tony

A couple of options I use (depending on the ease with which the lettering comes off) are to gently rub the lettering with a fibreglass brush or to scrape off with a scalpel with one of the rounded blades (as you are less likely to gouge into the paint surface that way). Usually, with some weathering over the top any damage to the paintwork doesn’t show.

Nigel

 

[paulhb]

Next up, SR vans, I've got two Bachmann bodies and two Ratio kits. Starting on a 9' wheelbase vacuum fitted van for the Bachmann body. I'm raiding my Cambrian and Parkside spares bin for the underframe. Hoping to get all four finished by Christmas....

Hi Tony,

I recently used IPA to remove lettering from a Hattons Genesis coach which worked. Also recently stumbled across a uTube video where a Sharpie pen was used to remove markings from a Heljan wagon. Not tried it myself.

Link.

Regards Paul

 

[James]

Hi Tony,

I recently used IPA to remove lettering from a Hattons Genesis coach which worked. Also recently stumbled across a uTube video where a Sharpie pen was used to remove markings from a Heljan wagon. Not tried it myself.

Link.

Regards Paul

That looks very handy!

 

[simond]

Bit counter intuitive but pretty effective.

Not sure why it needs a ten minute video to tell you what one sentence would, but that’s the modern world for you!

this young lady’s post provides some insight.

www.ChemistryIsLife.com - The Chemistry of Sharpies

Introduction Sharpies are sold in about 20 different countries, sharpie is just another permanent marker. There’s is about 39 different colors of the fine point. I choose the chemistry of sharpies because I love to draw and write with sharpies. It affects how i write and I just love all the colors

www.chemistryislife.com

 

[76043]

Thanks all for the info on removing RTR lettering, all very useful information.

The first van continues, obviously the body is Bachmann, but the 9' chassis is cobbled out of all sorts and now awaits suitable buffers and couplings. Has been a real challenge, was effectively scratchbuilt.
Tony

 

[76043]

So yet another spill of the EMA bottle has wrecked the bodywork of the southern van shown above. Fortunately the chassis was elsewhere and escaped, so a new Bachmann even planked body will have to be sourced at some point.

I should have been using my anti-spill liquid dispenser, but wasn't. Oh well.

So moving onto the next SR van here's the Ratio body on a plate axle box BR chassis representing a Diagram 1455.

Cheers
Tony