Try soaking the decaled area with Micro-Sol -r Solvaset, and work the area with a soft toothbrush or a semi firm paintbrush. You will probably have some discolored are under the decaled area, however. Good luck
As for the musical intervention, I thought I had seen a post in this thread about a pre-weathered Gibson guitar new from the factory. Now, of course, I cannot find the post in any of the threads I read this morning, and am wondering about my sanity (a regular occurrence). Sorry about throwing you all off.
I do tip my hat to Eric Smith and his calculated moves with his non-prototypical "collectibles." You have obviously seen that I am not a big fan of most of his ideas. I was enormously fond of their Christmas runs, particularly the early ones, but feel that MT's "collectibles" lost much of their interest with the Pepsi, Nestle (I did like some of them) and especially the 50 car state set. I really don't like the idea of their predictability, and would much rather see something more creative (e.g., the 2005 gift car "Midway," which was incredible, NCS's The Way They Should Have Been series, and DeLuxe's Armed Forces and Fallen Flag container series). I feel that the Navy series MT is about to offer will be much like the State series- one design with minor modifications, and no real art work on the cars (silhouettes are not that exciting, although they make for easy pad-printing). MT has the ability, moreso than any other manufacturer, to make incredible cars. However, that seems to have fallen to outside parties who (such as Lowell Smith's National Park Series, or the 6464 series, or our own Christmas cars that MT did in the late 90's) use MT's enormous abilities, rather than from within his organization. The 12 days of Christmas cars are boring, and maybe I'm just a burnt-out, jaded roue'.
Still looking for that thrill... Bob
