Hotwater,
You're making me feel guilty on the SP lettering so I bought new lettering on ebay for the 'southern pacific lines' for the AC-6 that has the large 'southern pacific' decal. I'm going to try to remove just the decal but that probably won't work and I'll have to strip it and re-paint it. That won't be a big deal since it's just the tender and no masking will be needed so it will go fast. Thanks for the info that I didn't know about.
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Decaling.
Started to decal one of the cab forwards and big boy and, in both cases, the decals dissolved in the water so I bought some micro decal film solution on ebay (should be here, today), which covers the decals and prevents them from falling apart.
Better luck with the new decals (just made) for the DM&IR 2-8-8-4 yellowstone.
I've found cutting a 45 degree corner on all the corners help keeps those 90 degree corners from 'folding on themselves' which is really hard to correct.
Also, did the caboose.
Been using this same bottle of solvaset for probably 20 years and it still works great. Not sure if they even make it any more. I used a nice soft paint brush to add the solfaset.
