I had used Scalecoat paint for decades, and I had a good stock of paint when that brand came up missing. I tried TCP for the first time in painting a couple of O scale GP-7 brass locomotives and found the paint to go on evenly and smooth. The advertisement for this paint reads it can be used directly from the bottle but I found it was far better by thinning about 10%. It could be my aging spraying equipment but I found it better to thin some and put on a number of very light coats.

Once dried in the finishing oven, it could be taped for masking very well. After masking I put on another coat near the tape to limit bleed under at details and when it was dry I was able to spray the second color with no problems.

I really like this paint.

R. Grosser