Restoring Marx 3/16" cars and locos

I stripped a few of them, approached an old toy company that had done litho (not Marx) and also pursued getting them silk-screened.....didn't get any positive responses..still have the shells in  a box...

A possibility that may work is to get good, clear photographs of the details you want on each car, and print the photos out on decal paper, scaling the photos to proper size. Paint over the car, and apply the decals. Something to experiment with.

Larry

Sounds like what Steve Eastman did on a Marx skyscraper.  That turned out very well.

I'll get some stuff together and give it a try.

Thanks for the info.

A friend of mine makes all sorts of sides to attach to the shells of Marx 3/16ths cars - I'll see if I can get him here to let you know what's available...

That would be wonderful MTN.  Thank you.

Just sent off an email/text message to my buddy - are there any particular railroads you're interested in?  He's got a lot of sides for boxcars and reefers, some passenger cars as well...

For Marx 3/16 scale, I usually use Microscale H0 decals. They look pretty decent.

Steve

I just spoke to my buddy Joe B a bit ago.  He's going to see if he's got some shots of cars with his custom made sides handy - hopefully he'll get those posted soon...

I may have a solution to your restoration projects. I'm the guy that Mike Nickel referred to.I have been  printing sides for Marx box cars and passenger cars. These are all redone artwork, not just a scan of an existing car. I will try to post photos of some of the sides as soon as I figure out how to upload them. Bear with me. I'm anxious to share my work.

I have sides for both 7" and scale boxcars. I started out making matching head end cars for the stock NYC passenger cars. I have also added a diner. Passenger sides also include a set op PRR maroon sides. I want to modify the Meteor car to PRR obs. Still thinking on this one.

These sides are printed on heavyweight archival photo paper with archival photo inks. I have several that I printed eight or nine years ago and have experienced no fading or other degradation of the images. That's why I have always used the best ink and paper.

Watch for the photos soon.

Joe

OK, folks. They are posted. Remember, these are just a few of the sides I have. Contact me individually and I'll provide more. I can't view th photos since I'm not a premium member yet so I'm hoping they are ok.

Sorry it took so long to get into this mix. I've gotten some good tips over the years from you all. Time to give back.

Joe

Where are they posted?

Steve

They are here, but premium membership is required to view them.

Joe, you can add them as attachments to a post so that they will be viewable by all.

Larry

I let Joe know he could post pix as attachments - he'll work on getting those reposted.

If there's a particular railroad you're interested in, post in the thread with your requests and perhaps Joe's got sides already made up for your favorite road.

OK. Let's try again. I'll try to post photos as an attachment this time. Here goes nothing...

Pretty cool stuff.

Joe,

I really like those NYC Passenger Car sides!

Dve

Fantastic!.....lots of Hoosier cars, including some offered by Atlas in its reefer series.

This is close to what I hoped NewMarx would do, and did not.

The nice thing about the sides is that you can salvage cars that have been subjected to poor storage conditions like pesky rust, clean it off, put down a coat of paint on the cleaned up carcass that matches the sides, and you've got something your Marxist pals most likely aren't gonna have...  

Joe and I are Hoosiers, so the Indiana roadnames were a natural.  It's a lot more affordable finding Marx junkers and buying a set of Joe's sides than it is buying the Atlas reefers as they come out.    I'm partial to that Nickel Plate Road baywindow caboose - High Speed Service indeed!