I recently bought several of Ives' 60 and 70 series passenger cars from the 1920's. There is a 62 chair car with a yellow stripe haphazardly sploshed across the side and a repainted roof, and a 73 observation with a painted end and roof. The original litho is intact, and from the looks of things so is the roof paint under the atrocious Tuscan someone brush painted, but I don't know how to remove the paint without possibly damaging the paint and printing underneath. Any help?
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Post a picture of what you have. I'm thinking Goof Off depending on what type of paint it is. I would only try a tiny section on what ever you use.
I will as soon as it arrives. I bought them off of the fleabay, and don't necessarily trust the buyer images, if you know what I mean.
Be very careful. Lots of lithography is an ink based coloration. It is usually more fragile than the paint slopped over it. The lithography that Marx used comes off with rubbing alcohol.
Here is the paint damage on my 62 chair car and 73 observation car:
You might be better off scanning the car sides, cleaning up the scan with a paint-type program, and making a vinyl wrap for the car.
Took another look tonight, I think it is a flaked litho, as there is some yellow in the scheme that probably the yellow on the side.
El Classico posted:Took another look tonight, I think it is a flaked litho, as there is some yellow in the scheme that probably the yellow on the side.
That is actually damage to the Ives litho finish. Not really flaking or paint. Kinda hard to explain, but imagine if you smeared the litho finish. That is what you are seeing....the yellow is a base in the ink on those cars, I believe.
Roofs are original.
I was given this Lionel-Ives 1690 car shell a few years back. I gave up the idea of trying to strip the crappy paint job down to the original lithography and just stripped it all down to bare metal. I would suspect the original paint was a mess if someone painted over it. Plus it needed body work anyhow. It was an orphan item so I made it into a battery-power trolley.
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