Has anyone ever repainted a Lionel Prewar 118 tunnel.

RonH posted:

Picked up a Lionel Prewar tunnel from eBay (could not resist a $0.99 price and $7.00 shipping).
Tunnel is the type that does not have the inside wall and the paint is very bad.
So has anyone ever repainted a tin tunnel and if you did please post a picture.
Did you use flat or semi gloss paint.
Looks like the tunnel were painted all tan in the beginning the Lionel brushed on the various colors topping it with white for snow (may do this part in gloss).

Give it the  J C Schrey

or the schlocky Junior Bridge treatment.

Jim,

I had that tunnel on the bottom in your post when I was a kid.  It was my godfather's set and has gone missing over the years.

What do you mean "schlocky Junior Bridge?"

Was that tunnel made by the Junior Bridge Company.

Try Graeme's site for more info on Junior Bridge.

http://www.binnsroad.co.uk/railways/junior/

Steve

Joe Lyons posted:

Jim,

 

I had that tunnel on the bottom in your post when I was a kid.  It was my godfather's set and has gone missing over the years.

What do you mean "schlocky Junior Bridge?"

 

Was that tunnel made by the Junior Bridge Company.

Joe, just commenting on the quality of the paint job on the original unit. Their other tunnel is also kind of haphazardly painted, but I enjoy both of them. Junior Bridge was a nice side company in the mid-20th Century o-gauge business as were Fergusson, Schrey, Colber, H&H, Jayline, Skyline, Chein and many others.

I don't know the number of the tunnel I got at a bargain but it painted up pretty good. I primed it after I removed the old paint by soaking it in a solultion of Draino. Draino works great on all the old tin plate and you can put it down the drain when you are finished. I used my left over spray paint and any other model paint I had in my stock. Enclosed are before and after photos.

gene maag posted:

I don't know the number of the tunnel I got at a bargain but it painted up pretty good. I primed it after I removed the old paint by soaking it in a solultion of Draino. Draino works great on all the old tin plate and you can put it down the drain when you are finished. I used my left over spray paint and any other model paint I had in my stock. Enclosed are before and after photos.

 

gene, yours looks like the cousin to the 140L 12/13/16 post in this thread

Awesome paint job!