Painting Paya coach roof tops

It has already been a few weeks since I painted the self-fabricated replacement roof for the Paya 987 Salon coach. Since then the other original paint-chipped roofs looked like crap and I had to step in and do something about it. I reckoned that sanding the roofs smooth would do the trick, but that proved to be a mistake. The old black primer paint is not compatible with modern paint types. So, I could only do one thing. Sand both roofs back to bare metal, prime them with conventional primer paint and then spray white over them. Since it was a lovely sunny day, that is just what I have done.

Now those roofs are much better indeed on the Paya 987 coaches. I placed the Lionel 259E in front of them, since this was the original for the Paya 987 steam engine copy.

Lionel 151 Semaphores

A few weeks ago, I picked up these Lionel 151 semaphores. One operated directly smoothly. The other has a too tight return spring, which caused the signal arm to vibrate. Well that has been sorted and I will wire them tomorrow.
Last weeks I was busy with loads of other things. Like staring at cars and folks that stare towards shiny cars during the AutoRai car show in distant Amsterdam.

Autorai Amsterdam 2015