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Brian, Those three are older HO scale Oriental Limited E8's. I model 1950, so none of the first several orders of E8 had the stainless steel plymetal panels. They were done with the Scalecoat I Aluminum and baked at 170° for 45 minutes to drive off the solvents. This is not a necessary step, I just prefer to bake any brass I'm painting. The chip I attached is the Tru-Color TCP-013 Aluminum. Despite what they say about spraying Tru-Color directly without thinning, I find you have to cut it with about 20% thinner to spray it well at around 20 - 25 psi. People say you can use regular Acetone, but I use their proprietary thinner. You need to put the Tru-Color on "wet" and you get a glossy finish to decal over, before clear coating with a satin. I'm assuming you are doing the 996X chicken wire F3's? I'd use the same color for those, and yes, you should be able to do all three with a 1 oz bottle. If you have any specific questions on painting these, feel free to private message me so I don't bore the list to death... RIch
On Thursday, July 2, 2026 at 12:21:08 PM CDT, Brian Walsh via groups.io <bcw.backshop=sympatico.ca@groups.io> wrote:
Richard
Your baking looks delicious! Were they painted with Scalecoat or Tru-Color? And they look like American Models E8's in S scale, which is just what I purchased. I also have two F3's to do in the aluminum paint -- do I assume that just one 1 oz bottle is sufficient for all three?
Brian Walsh
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