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| Subject: | Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... |  |
| Date: | Aug 13, 2002 |
| From: | Steve Frost | |
If the M1's stationed in Korea in 1994 are indicative of weathering
effects on "modern" armor, then even modern armor gets the bojangles
beat out of it. You could barely tell that the side skirts were ever
green on the bottom third or more thanks to those hot, humid,
monsoon-like Korean summers and cold snowy Korean winters turning them
into a dustish color. I also distinctly remember them beginning to turn
brownish near the skirt separation points where one skirt plate ended
and the next began for some reason. And unfortunately in places like
Korea where "official" supplies are hard to come by, the paint jobs
washed out pretty badly in spots as well, through no fault of the
crews'. My HMMV looked terrible, almost white in some spots when I first
got it. Had to resort to the Post Exchange purchased Krylon OD green,
brown and black spray paint for "touch-ups" due to the paint job just
slowly fading away and no sign or hope of a refurbishment during my
tour. Great, dependable truck though, got me out of a number of turtle
ditches and over some hills...
I guess my rambling, in short, means that in some cases the heavy
weathering is appropriate in my rather limited artistic opinion.
T-34-76's fighting in Leningrad or whatnot, where they literally rolled
off the assembly line and into combat down the road, were trashed in a
matter of days to weeks, if not shot down. So maybe context is the
key???
Steve
"S.E. Dimmick" wrote:
>
> I dunno I like the way it "looks", even though its not 100% accurate. In
> reguards to wear and tare on vechicle...thats in real life operations check
> out my Photos that I took while in Bosina in 1996...All vechicles have a
> heavy coating of dust and mud on them for the most part. Theres even some
> infamous rust streaking on the hull sides due to dissimilar metals in
> contact with each other. If you compair my photos with vechicles that Jeorge
> Lopez has done with his 5 Ton Dump truck in Bosina, they look very similar.
> I think the biggest problem is that people are trying interpet what the
> colors of the vechicles are from a black and white photo, where it might not
> show all the slight "color" changes that are apparent with "real" color
> photograph.
>
> I find it looks alot better then the white drybrushing that was popluar with
> Tony Greenland and Mr. Verliden. It also looks better then doing no weather
> at all since I find that even though theres paint on the model...it still
> looks too toy like for my likes.
>
> Scott |
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 | That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Andy Herbert - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Yuchung Wang - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Randall Smith - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Ah yes, drove a Farmall just the other day.... - Randall Lynn - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Ah yes, drove a Farmall just the other day.... - Randall Smith - Aug 14, 2002 |
| . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - S.E. Dimmick - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Favourite Modellers - Paul A. Owen - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Why, thanks! *blush* - Warrink - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Favourite Modellers - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: one of the styles I like. - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 11, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: one of my favourites. - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: also... - Christophe Jacquemont - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: also... - Yuchung Wang - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: also... - Ray Peterson - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: also... - Marcel Jussen - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: also... - Bad Omen - Aug 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Favourite Modellers - - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Favourite Modellers - Eric Solomonson - Aug 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Steve Frost - Aug 13, 2002 |
| . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - David Tong - Aug 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Wojciech Duda - Aug 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: That "Rusty, Dusty and Scratchy" show... - Wojciech Duda - Aug 14, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OH! The Rustless Welds!!! - Yuchung Wang - Aug 17, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: OH! The Rustless Welds!!! - MSW - Aug 17, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: OH! The Rustless Welds!!! - Kurt Laughlin - Aug 17, 2002 |
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