Fox Transfers

[NZRedBaron]

So, I have something on my mind now; I was thinking to pick up a Hornby RR Flying Scotsman model, and then see if I can rename and renumber it into her sister 2552 Sansovino; but I'm unsure how I'd go about swapping out the nameplates. Anyone ever done anything like that?

[mick b]

Glue the new plates on top of the originals,paint the original plates Black first. Much harder to change the number !!.

[NZRedBaron]

That simple, huh?

I seem to remember that many many years ago, I had a "Churchward County", followed by a "Saint" and later a D49 "Hunt" where the front face of the whole splasher could be pulled off along with the nameplate- this was back in the 90's I think. Does the RR "Scotsman" still have that?

[mick b]

The decent versions have pull off ones, no reason why the Railroad would be different.

[NZRedBaron]

I'll keep that in mind; also found something interesting last night- SDJR7F88 made a video back in 2018 where he used a Sharpie and some Humbrol paint thinners to cleanly remove the cabside numbers off of a Hornby Stanier 8F.

Apparently the process works just as well with Bachmann, Dapol, and Heljian models, it just needs a little more effort for Hornby's Tampographed numbers, letters and symbols.

It came from RMWeb originally, it seems- Original Thread here.