Yesterday on the way home from work, I stopped at the local hobby shop and picked up a couple pairs of Athearn's new 28' pup trailers to add variety to the 40' and 45' trailers hauled on my piggyback cars. They look great and would fit my era (mid-70s to mid-90s). However, I got home, took them out of the boxes, and found that they have the companies' websites on the ends of the trailers, which would be a bit too modern for my timeline. While the print isn't very noticable at a normal viewing distance, the perfectionist side of me would like to remove the websites to backdate the trailers more to my timeline. Is there an easy way to do this without damaging the rest of the paint/trailer?
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
chatanuga Is there an easy way to do this without damaging the rest of the paint/trailer?
Hi, Kevin.
I use ELO, Easy Lift Off from Testors for most of my lettering removal.
But, before you go that route, since this lettering is on the back of a trailer I wondered if you can get away with placing some safety stripe decals over the web site lettering.
https://tinyurl.com/y77mwpex
Or some "trim film" patch out decal material. I see trailer doors with repair or reinforcing plates applied quite often. Even thin strips of foil tape would work.
https://tinyurl.com/ycfgwwhf
Do you have a photo or a link to a photo of the back of the trailer?
Good luck, Ed
From Athearn's site: