Just got a Walthers S.P. C-30-1 wood caboose and plan to re-letter it for the Sud Pacifico De Mexico, S.P.'s Mexican road that used a bunch of cast-off and/or borrowed S.P. and T.&N.O. equipment. Problem is that it comes pre-finished and lettered for the S.P.
Anyone out there got a sure-fire way to get the factory lettering off the sides without wrecking the finish beneath it as well? Or, alternatively, would it be easier to just strip the sucker and start out from the ground up? (You'd think that after fifty-odd years in the hobby I'd have learned all of the tricks, but I've never done anything that requires removing factory lettering from a plastic car without ruining the finish at the same time.)
Thanx,
Pete