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It was a leap of faith when I put my RDC shells in my blast booth and let it rip. I did have some apprehension about it. My blast booth does one thing and one thing only - very well - find good clean brass. There is nothing subtle about it. There is no finesse. All paint surrenders to the blast booth. I thought I took photos of my RDC when I blasted it, but I did not. I just started right in on them and painted. The blast actually removed some of the chrome, but mostly made it a nice flat finish. If you have felt a blasted brass model "it is smooth but it is not". You just have to see it. I am sure there is some microscopic mountain range surface thing going on, but the paint just loves that stuff. A little time in the oven and the paint melts out smooth as glass. It was my opinion that I would forever be touching up the silver over the chrome. I don't think there is any paint that will stick to chrome (or nickel plating) very long. I am almost positive it was chrome though. That is why I took the plunge and did the blast and Alclad paint. Further, I think the Alclad stainless paint looks really perfect especially when compared to the original paint on the RDC. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
