I am in the process of assembling several "old time" roundhouse kits that come with archbar style trucks.  The challenge I am having is getting paint to stick to the archbar trucks.  I am new to paining and I have searched the posts here and have not found anything helpful.

Hey gentlemen, I'm detailing an old Athearn Blue Box P40 in hopes of eventually adding DCC and sound. Just purchased some LEDs the other day, and I want to ask some questions before I start taking everything apart.

I bought mine in D&RGW colors and since I can't find GS gons to plausibly run coal out west, I'm going to have to go eastern. My railroad is freelance but no way is a D&RGW GP-7 going to be seen pulling USRA two bay hoppers out west. Despite what some may think, I do have some standards and desire for plausibility.