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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5989

Allan OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 60 Thank you received: 14	Looking for a post-Champion source for dulux "READING COMPANY" passenger car decals for my BCW cars. The BCW decals are a little fuzzy and seem small. Any thoughts from the Modeler team? Modeling the cars as they appeared in late '50s. Thanks in advance.
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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5990

LNE-401 OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 197 Thank you received: 68	The Microscale "Reading Company" is way too big as I found that out purchasing a set.
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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5991

Rdgrail OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 77 Thank you received: 16	Doesn't Bethlehem Car Works sell decal sets for their equipment? - Nick
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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5992

Allan OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 60 Thank you received: 14	The ones provided are not adequate as good as the old Champ ones, which I used on my original cars built about 15 years ago, or the Intermountain BCW builds. The attached photo shows the decals currently provided. .
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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5993

Rdgrail OFFLINE Fireman Posts: 77 Thank you received: 16	Allan, Do you have a photo example of the old champ decal ones? Everyone recommends those, but I've never actually seen a set before (born too late ). - Nick
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Reading Passenger Car Decals - HO Scale 6 years 8 months ago #5994

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So again the goal is to replicate post WWII dulux gold "READING COMPANY" lettering.

Photo 1 is Champ Regular Label

Photo 2 is Champ Blue Ribbon

Photo 3 is Bethlehem Car works included in PBu kit

I've attached a link to a very good photo of PBu 2011 in 1960 from Fallen Flags:
rr-fallenflags.org/rdg/rdg-co2011o26.jpg

I'd say the Champ Blue Ribbon has the best quality (note the "A" in Reading). Not sure if any one is an exact match for the prototype.

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