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Added door scrapes on the right carbody panels using colored pencils and oil paints. You see some of these cars in flour service and spilled flour around the bottom of the door openings. I added this using white oil paint. I’ll replace the Kadee trucks one of these days as I don’t like the out of scale springs they come with. Also went down the vertical seams of the panels with the black pencil just to breakup the sides.
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Kadee car with a six digit number. I painted two patches on the sides for the new number and the Information below the road number. Decals from a number of Microscale sets and Mask Island.
The 6 digit numbering on the Mopac came about in the early 1960’s, the ACI labels were used by some roads until 1977, the U-1 yellow dots were added in March 1978 and stopped in 1981. The COTS started in 1972. All these decals were applied using Walthers Solva-set so you can add them directly to the Dullcoted surface. The COTS decal did start to come off so I thinned some Elmer’s white glue and painted the area were the decal would go and gently pressed the decal in place and the blotted up the thinned glue around the decal with a damp paper towel.
After the decals dry will add some weathering and a thin coat of Dullcote. [attachment=3:155tc2u5]image.jpeg[/attachment:155tc2u5]
