Decals for wood sides cars

@charles mcdaniel posted:

Could never find old looking passenger cars to go with my Lionel B & O Atlantic so I repainted these mth Overton cars, desired from parallel to series (tmcc operation) and added passengers. Now I would like to add some lettering. My question is has anyone ever applied decals to Woodsided cars and how did they turn out? Sorry if the picture quality is subpar. Thanks

Decals are decals, and it doesn't matter WHAT surface you apply them on, i.e. wood, plastic, brass, tin, aluminum, or plastic simulated wood.

Decal setting solution will work good to blend in to the wood grain in the car.    

http://www.microscale.com/Merc...mp;Product_Code=MI-2

Well...there's a potential problem with wood and decals. This is from personal experience.

If your paint job is properly thick and seals the wood well, if you have a glossy or at least satin finish, and if the wood is not overly porous (woods vary), you should be fine. I did not meet those conditions years ago and the wood just sucked up the decal "glue" on the film and all the Solvaset I threw at it. The decals would not stick, much less lie down.

Finally I re-painted the car (a freight car) carefully with hardware store gloss black - 2 coats, as I recall - and that did the trick. I over sprayed the decals with Dullcote after all was dry and cured.

None of that may apply to you. It did to me.

The MTH Overton car bodies are plastic simulating a wood-sided passenger car. Not wood.