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Thanks, gents.

I hit the entire body of the hack with several coats of this: http://www.micromark.com/AGE-I...and2-FL-OZ,7567.html All it is, is ink dilluted in alcohol, but it's pre-mixed.

I then smeared rubber cement over various spots (missing one entire side, something I didn't realize until after the paint was dry) and painted over that with scalecoat caboose red, which might be a little darker than the actual color 505 had, but there's really no way to know for certain.

I then put the decal on each side, then hit it with two coats of gloss coat.

I had to weather the other side conventionally, with paints. I weathered the rest with paints, a dremel, sandpaper and various other things.

Before the final dull coat, I scribed the decals along the 'board' lines, then I used dull coat over that as well as inside the windows for a 'frosted' finish to the window glass as I didn't put an interior inside so you couldn't look in and tell that.

I think i went too far to match the prototype, though. I can't find any photos online showing the sad state of her paint by the mid 40s, though. But this is what she looked like probably about a dedcade before (and probably not painted again after this):