SCL E-8a # 597 grills

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On SCL E-8A #597 what are the correct grills to use, using life like's proto 2000 E-8a? I have only seen one photo of this unit, and I can't tell by the photo if the side grills are of the vertical or horizontal type. thank you for any help.

-- Antonio Galan Jr. (galana@nt.quantico.usmc.mil), August 10, 1999

Answers

You can find a photo of SCL 597 at http://www.dnaco.net/~gelwood/. The contrast isn't that great but the grills look vertical to me.

-- Jim Coviello (jcovi60516@aol.com), August 12, 1999.

Use the vertical slit grills. It was a "late" E-8, nee SAL 3057.

-- Paul Faulk (faulkl@basf.com), August 12, 1999.

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