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| Subject: | Is it safe to assume... |  |
| Date: | Nov 26, 2007 |
| From: | Kip Rudge | |
that if chipping exists on modern vehicles, with their high quality paints/coatings and excellent maintenance, why won't it exist on older vehicles with little cosmetic maintenance and older less durable paints?
Watch what happens when modern tankers toss hawsers, sledge hammers, damaged road wheels and any other heavy metal paraphenailia on a vehicle. Or what happens when they brush a stone wall or another vehicle. Most modern vehicles get plenty scratched - but they are touched up after coming in from the field.
I hazard a guess that nobody on this forum ever saw a Panzer 3 or Sherman after 3-4 months out in the field, except in a B&W photo which we have proven beyond any reasonable doubt doesn't transmit tonal difference between darker colors. I would say part of the reason you don't see scratches on Shermans and Panzer 3s is that the film can't tell the difference - it's all one dark tone. Common sense will tell you there's wear and tear around tool stowage, simply because it's removed and slammed back into the holders without a lot of regard for cosmetic appeal.
I agree it can be over done - and often is. But to discount it's existance is to have never walked onto a construction site and seen heavy machinery after it's been out in the field for a month or so.
Chipping simply needs to be used in a common sense approach. I can recall a series of reference pictures of a brand new LeClerc in a modeling mag not long ago. Right in the middle of the turret front armor was a gouge of paint missing - with attendant colors from the gouge. This vehicle was babied and still lost paint. A machine in combat get much worse wear and tear.
I say chip it! Just don't over chip it! |
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 | Weathering Heresies II - Paul A. Owen - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . Rusty Mufflers - Paul A. Owen - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Rusty Mufflers [IMG] - Joe Bakanovic - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . Blackened Muzzle Breaks - Paul A. Owen - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . Paint Chips. - Paul A. Owen - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips. - Danny Egan - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips - example photo [IMG] - Paul A. Owen - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips - example photo - exactly so - Danny Egan - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips. - Gary Cooper - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips on a 'new' AFV - Andrew Herbert - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips - Part 1 [IMG] - Joe Bakanovic - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips - part 2 [IMG] - Joe Bakanovic - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Chips in winter washes and other things - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 26, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . The photo [IMG] - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 26, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: The photo - Paul A. Owen - Nov 26, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: The photo - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IMG codes and such - Andrew Herbert - Nov 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Paint Chips - Part 3 [IMG] - Joe Bakanovic - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Weld bead rusting, at least on German WWII vehicles - Saul Garcia - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Weld bead rusting, at least on US WWII vehicles [IMG] - Tim Streeter - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Weld bead rusting, at least on US WWII vehicles, Second Photo [IMG] - Tim Streeter - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pobody's Nerfect - Joe Bakanovic - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Is it safe to assume... - Kip Rudge - Nov 26, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - David Manning - Nov 23, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Steve Camley - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Roy Chow - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Steve Camley - Nov 24, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Gary Cooper - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: and yet.... - Danny Egan - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Steve Camley - Nov 25, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Sean Langley - Nov 26, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Weathering Heresies II - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 26, 2007 |
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