Tom - If you are talking about just small areas of lettering, see my earlier post about the Sanford "Prismacolor Magic Rub" eraser. I read about it somewhere online, bought a pack at Office Depot, and have successfully used it to remove lettering with very little damage to the paint surface. Ken
I took Ken's advise a few weeks ago and got this, it is pencil type so you can concentrate on more specific areas. I found that it removes numbers/letters fine, and actually polishes the paint a bit. Tom Holley link [FONT="]http://www.dickblick.com/products/sanford-magic-rub-peel-off-eraser-pencil/[/FONT]
Tom - Wow, mine are square blocks like the usual art eraser. It's OK as long as I have corners to use on the letterig, but that won't last forever. Back to Office Depot to look for the pencil style, that sounds better. K
I have the square block style. They are unsurpassed pencil reasers, I'll give it a try on the lettering. Tom G.
Report: The lettering on the Rivarossi (aka Atlas, Arnold, Con-Cor) N scale passenger cars is impervious to the Sanford Magic Rub eraser. It didn't do anything but make the area slightly shiny where I was rubbing. Back to the drawing board... Tom
Tom, try Pine-Sol and a Q-tip. This was used in an MR article recently to remove factory lettering. It took several applications.
Tom I wonder what Rivarossi used for that lettering. It must be some really tuff Ink or paint. I did a few IM cars with the eraser and it did the job. I was looking over one of your posts and you said you tried lacquer thinner, and if that didn't work. I am like you, thinking that what might dissolve the lettering might hurt the paint underneath. Tom Holley
The eraser also didn't affect the overall paint either. I do have one Rivarossi carbody that I stripped with brake fluid sometime back. That worked for stripping the whole car. If I remember I stripped two or three other cars at the same time by leaving them in a brake fluid "bath" for several days. OK It's Pine Sol next, I'll report back... Tom G.
Pine Sol did NOT work for me tonight. Been trying for about half an hour with no visible changes at all.
Jim--What make of model are you trying to strip? I emailed a buddy of mine and he says the early Atlas/Rivarossi cars are very hard to strip. I'm thinking of going ahead and biting the bullet and getting a bottle of Scalecoat II. Tom G.
I tried it on my Bachmann 4-4-0 "Jupiter". It's for my Civil War Cairo Naval Station diorama. The gunboat "Carondelet" is already finished in 1/87.
Man that's some kind of wicked ink or paint they were using huh? I better not throw away that Scalecoat paint remover yet. They should have used that Atlas/Rivarossi stuff as heat shields on the Space Shuttle. Tom Holley
Ha ha. And if you had wanted the decals to stay on they would rub off at the slightest touch. It just figures.
Yep, it just ain't right Jim, some kind of Cosmic thing I guess. Like you say, just try get to paint to peel, when you want to, and watch that stuff come off in sheets, when you don't. Yep, it ain't right man, just ain't right. Tom Holley P.S. This kind of thing used to happen to John Wayne too. But it is not talked about very much....
OK .. Now try the Easy Off (heavy duty from Wally World is cheaper). Spray a little in a bowl and try a Q-tip on the lettering. Let it sit for awhile.
Report: I haven't got around to trying Pine Sol or Easy Off yet, but the Sanford pencil style erasers didn't work any better than the block type on the Rivarossi (Atlas) passenger car lettering. Tom G.
