10-22-2019, 03:19 PM
Depending on who made the car, you may be able to paint over factory-applied paint. Some brands, like Tyco and the original LifeLike, used too much paint, and it hid, on some cars, rather well-executed details. Regular Athearn cars had relatively thin paint, but it's easy to strip off if you need a fresh start.
My preference, in almost all cases, is to remove the paint and start fresh. This also affords an opportunity to add some better details, such as free-standing grabirons or to simply remove some details which are out-of-scale or non-prototypical.
Here's a couple of Train Miniature cars with the original paint stripped-off.....
In both examples, this made it easy to get rid of the oversized and improperly-placed door tracks, creating new ones using strip styrene. Both cars also use modified Athearn doors.
Here's the same cars, repainted and re-lettered....
Wayne
My preference, in almost all cases, is to remove the paint and start fresh. This also affords an opportunity to add some better details, such as free-standing grabirons or to simply remove some details which are out-of-scale or non-prototypical.
Here's a couple of Train Miniature cars with the original paint stripped-off.....
In both examples, this made it easy to get rid of the oversized and improperly-placed door tracks, creating new ones using strip styrene. Both cars also use modified Athearn doors.
Here's the same cars, repainted and re-lettered....
Wayne