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Winston-Salem Southbound Series: Painting an EMD GP9 diesel locomotive, Part 1 – stripping paint

While work on MRVP's Winston-Salem HO project layout continues, Cody takes on the task of painting up our model railroad's diesel locomotive. In this mini-series, Cody will walk through the steps for disassembling, stripping, detailing, painting, decaling, and weathering an Athearn Genesis EMD GP9 model to match the WSS prototype. Cody gets things started by removing the original paint in Part 1.

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