Eliminate lettering on Accucraft wagon

[sandy1000]

Respraying would lose all of the delicate black iron work of which there is stacks. Masking the windows and that tiny superb builders plate would also be ultra tricky then there would be the loss of all the other lettering and numbering.

The real solution is to buy the Accucraft data only version which I have done with my other wagons.

However, to finalise the current problem I sanded away gently the remaining residue of white paint then dry brushed the smudges with Tamiya IJN Gray. This is fractionally darker than it should be but I am sure that Tamiya will have a slightly lighter grey and that should do it.

As it stands at the moment however I'm sure that no one would notice any blemishes.

Thanks for all of the contributions.

[sandy1000]

Just for what it is worth I finally wiped out the remaining "smudges" of the lettering with the following paint combination. I can feel reasonably sure now that this would suit any Accucraft NG wagons if repairing and thus repainting is required.

TAMIYA XF77 (IJN grey)
TAMIYA XF 66 (Light grey
TAMIYA XF23 (Light blue)

As to what proportions you are on your own. I just mixed a bit of each and it all fell into place.

[Peter Butler]

Having no experience of these particular wagons I can only imagine the lettering is applied on top of the original base paint colour, therefore, the only way to remove it is by scraping it away rather than using a paint stripper which would remove everything.
If you take a scalpel with a curved blade you should be able to gently scrape away the unwanted paint... this will be the equivalent to shaving an inflated balloon so a steady hand is recommended.
Even then you might find a difference in surface finish so a matt/satin varnish might be required?
Good luck!

This is not the way I first became aware of the method I recommended but whilst looking through some back issues of 'British Railway Modelling' of 2008 vintage I came across the same information described in a similar way....



If you have found a better way which achieves the result required it just shows there are more ways of 'skinning the cat' (whoever thought of that?)