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Removing prints from the 3785 ACW / Western wagon´s cover

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Hadoque:
The 1970s and 1980s Western Covered Wagons all come with the wagon-cover (hood?) in a kind of light-brown (or very-dark-beige);

Looking at the pictures of such a wagon past weekend, I once more thought about the specific colour of the wagon-cover.
I don´t like that it is almost the same light-brownish colour as the wagon´s wheels and some other parts. Too dark imho and the colour gets only darker with age.

I prefer the colour of the wagon-cover of the DS-version set 7648
http://playmodb.org/setpics/7/7648.jpg

So, I decided I wanted to equip my 3278 Covered Wagon from the 1980s with a lighter wagon-cover.
But I did not want to take away the lighter-coloured ones from my DS-wagons, which date back from about a decade ago.
And those lighter-coloured wagon-covers are since long not available anymore from DS, and extremely hard to find on ebay or such.

But, the wagon-covers from ACW-set 3785, which are basically the same colour as the cover from the DS wagon, are still to be regularly found as loose parts.
Only problem: They have a reasonbly large printing on both sides!

So, time to erase the printing from such one!

Hadoque:
There are several ways to remove prints from Playmobil figures, as f.e. discussed here in Tahra´s thread;

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14320.0

Removing larger prints is of course a bit more difficult (or a bit harder work) then removing relative small printing from klickies.
There are several ways to do it , I will only explain the method / products that I prefered  for the wagon-cover print-removal.

After the explanation, people are welcome to offer their comments and or suggestions and or to tell about  their own methods.  :)

Below the wagon-cover in question:

Hadoque:
For removing small prints on klickies or their accessories, I usually use soft (white) pencil-erasers, on some occasions harder pen-erasers.

Working with pen-erasers goes a little faster then with softer pencil-erasers, but it might leave sometimes a few scratches, and also the shine disappears somewhat with the print, so the cleaned areas become a bit more dull.

For this larger wagon-cover print-removal, I decided to use a combination of pen-erasers, pencil-erasers and a "print-& varnish"-remover for plastics used in hobby-modelling.
(No extreme fine sandpaper like Hauden_Lukas sometimes uses, I keep that material aside for much finer work)

Below the products for this case...

Hadoque:
I started first with the pencil-eraser (that is the blue end on the double-coloured gummie).
A bit of good & relative hard rubbing, and it worked quite good, printing was coming off well, even on the most dark-coloured areas.

Hadoque:
When a lot of the printing was gone, I switched to a piece of somewhat softer (white) pencil-eraser gummie.
So I would have no chance of getting scratches on places where the printing was already reasonably gone.

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