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| Subject: | Armor welds, antennas, and synthetic tires |  |
| Date: | Nov 28, 2007 |
| From: | Kurt Laughlin | |
In WW II - and beyond - armor was welded with an "18-8" filler metal to prevent cracking. That designation stands for a 18% chromium and 8% nickel alloy steel, more commonly known as stainless steel. So, armor welds don't rust and shouldn't be weathered with rust streaks.
Most antennas are black or the vehicle color. Only automobile antennas are chrome silver.
There is a trend in aircraft modeling to paint synthetic rubber tires (as the Germans used in WW II) a dark but not black gray, based on the believe that they must be different from natural rubber. One of the additives included in rubber to dissipate heat and static electriciy and to improve strength was carbon black, the definition of pure black pigment. If anything, synthetics had more of it than natural rubber, so they should be very black, tending toward brown.
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 | Commonly mis-painted items on models - Roy Chow - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . Re: List of commonly mis-painted items on models - Glenn Bartolotti - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: List of commonly mis-painted items on models - Roy Chow - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Bakelit [IMG] - Frank Forster - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: List of commonly mis-painted items on models - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . Re: List of commonly mis-painted items on models - John Steinman - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . A good one to add: Lt tank retn rollers steel too - Roy Chow - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: A good one to add: Lt tank retn rollers steel too - John Steinman - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . Red-brown "wood" tool handles - Paul A. Owen - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Red-brown "wood" tool handles - Jim Johnson - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Red-brown "wood" tool handles - Brian Bocchino - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Bakelit vs. Tuffnell - Wow - Ken Dixon - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Bakelit vs. Tuffnell - Wow - Paul A. Owen - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . T-34 lights - Cesar Oliva Atienza - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: T-34 lights - Adam Weber - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . Armor welds, antennas, and synthetic tires - Kurt Laughlin - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Commonly mis-painted items on models - Greg Banks - Nov 28, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Commonly mis-painted items on models - Sean Langley - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Commonly mis-painted items on models - Arun Bauer - Dec 1, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Jagdtiger is a severe anamoly - Roy Chow - Dec 1, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Jagdtiger is a severe anamoly - Arun Bauer - Dec 2, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Commonly mis-painted items on models - Gary Cooper - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . No thanks needed: misuse of brain cells - Roy Chow - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: No thanks needed: misuse of brain cells - Robert Garelli - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Actually I'm mistaken about Bakelite handles!!! - Roy Chow - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I think you are right Roy - Kurt Laughlin - Nov 30, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . never take them out of the car - Andrew Herbert - Nov 29, 2007 |
| . . . Summary to date - Roy Chow - Dec 1, 2007 |
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