I need to re-number some engines, how to get the old ones off without taking off the base paint. My GP9athern engine numbers are wrong and non-existent in real life.
John
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thank you
my old BB athearn locos lettering is painted on, micro-sol has done nothing so far but smear the paint somewhat, kind of making the thing look weathered, old crap paint I suppose.
I have a couple of old Athearn Geeps that are no longer functional, but I like to run them as either dummies or sound dummies, so they are just shells with decoders and lights. They are the black and orange Milwaukee Road colors, so I mask the lower half off, spray the top half with good black model paint and put the decals on there.
That's a good time for weathering the engine and you'd might as well do the trucks, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley; that is what's going to happen GP9 -7 lights only
still have to renumber them.
I had my Athearn Geeps as a teenager, back in the 50s and 60s. I couldn't part with them. They're like old friends. Even as dummies, they live on and enhance my current layout, even decades after their mechanical demise.
I bought a Walthers GP9M, a rebuild of an old Geep. Just to be an anti-rivet-counter, I took an old Geep and numbered it the same as the one that became the GP9M. I smile when I run them in a consist.
I re-numbered using rubing alcohol to rub off the old number(s) or the back of a hobby knife. Some have used pencil erasers. Not sure if there's a secret formula, but it seems there are options.