sortingOrder not working for 3D renderer

Unity Engine
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I know this has come up before and I have tried the solutions I could find, but still no joy.
I am creating GameObjects on the fly from a prefab. All the objects share the same position, but I want to control the rendering order.

public class MasterBehaviour : MonoBehaviour {
    private int scaleLevel = 1;
    private float scaler = 0.001f;
    private Vector3 scaleVector;
    private GameObject scale1;
    private GameObject scale2;
    private GameObject scale3;
    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        scaleVector = new Vector3(scaler, scaler, scaler);
        scale1 = Instantiate(Resources.Load("GridPlane", typeof(GameObject))) as GameObject;
        scale2 = Instantiate(Resources.Load("GridPlane", typeof(GameObject))) as GameObject;
        scale3 = Instantiate(Resources.Load("GridPlane", typeof(GameObject))) as GameObject;
        scale1.transform.localScale = new Vector3(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f);
        scale2.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
        scale3.transform.localScale = new Vector3(10.0f, 10.0f, 10.0f);
        scale1.GetComponent<Renderer>().sortingOrder = 1;
        scale2.GetComponent<Renderer>().sortingOrder = 2;
        scale3.GetComponent<Renderer>().sortingOrder = 3;

    

    }
}

Things I’ve tried:
Applying different ids/names to the layers.
Applying the same id/name to the layers.

I should also mention that the layers will eventually house 3D content, so I can’t just transform 1 unit in the Z-axis.

Any help much appreciated :slight_smile:

UPDATE: I have tried generating each renderer at runtime, and each material, incase they were sharing the same renderer, but so far to no avail.

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So far have to use some position trickery, but I like the effect :slight_smile:
Infinity Engine

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