If the old paint is in a very had condition, chip it off with a chipping hammer and scrape as level as possible; then tiive the engine two coats of lead colour (white-lead and patent driers in linseed oil coloured with black); stop the bad places with hard stopping, then fill up and rub down with pumice-stone and water, and give two more coats of lead colour. If the paint is in fairly good condition, clean off all grease with turps and a scraper and give two coats of lead colour. Stop the bad places with hard stopping and sandpaper down. Now give two coats of Brunswick green ground in oil and thinned with turps. Line and pick out with drop black ground in oil and thinned with turps. Varnish with best body varnish. Do not use terebine or boiled oil; the paint should be ground in linseed oil, and patent driers used.