Quick update.
Threw the shells in the old Chameleon stripper this weekend.
Either my twelve year old bottle of Chameleon has lost it's edge.
(I've only stripped a couple hundred HO & N scale shells, what gives!?!)
Or Life Like & Industrial Rail (who now sells the car) got their hands on that crappy Kato paint.
Just in case, I went out and bought a bottle of 91% alcohol.