ColinR Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 I was going to title this post "Gonna Need a bigger roll of Tape" , but I shamelessly stole the original title For those of us who don't spend time around real combat aircraft I'm always fascinated to see videos like this showing just how these special schemes are applied. There are times when I watch them and think I could do that after all I can spray and use masks , but then my models don't cost $30Million a pop Enjoy Furie, Pascal, Jack and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Might take a while with our airbrushes, but much less guesswork as to which shade of F36375 to use. No pre or post shading either. ColinR and TAG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Watched this earlier. That’s a lot of man hours right there. ColinR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Nice to see that the pros also sometimes have to sand down and try again. That turned out to be a very attractive scheme, though for a real P-47 look I would have loved to see them strip it down to bare metal and polish it. I realize that's not good for airframe durability, but they could have clear-coated over it... ColinR, Lee White and Oldbaldguy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Alex said: Nice to see that the pros also sometimes have to sand down and try again. That turned out to be a very attractive scheme, though for a real P-47 look I would have loved to see them strip it down to bare metal and polish it. I realize that's not good for airframe durability, but they could have clear-coated over it... At first I was going to comment that it would be tough to polish all that composite material but I looked it up and discovered that 75% of the airplane’s skins are aluminum. Had no idea! Learn something new everyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 23 minutes ago, Oldbaldguy said: At first I was going to comment that it would be tough to polish all that composite material but I looked it up and discovered that 75% of the airplane’s skins are aluminum. Had no idea! Learn something new everyday. I'm surprised that an F-16 is only 75% metal skinned! I know the radome is plastic, but what else...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 2 hours ago, Alex said: I'm surprised that an F-16 is only 75% metal skinned! I know the radome is plastic, but what else...? The graphic I saw showed that the control surfaces on the wings are honeycomb, the radome and vertical tail fairing are fiberglass and the rest of the tail and stabs are composite. Everything else is aluminum, steel or titanium. More or less. For some reason, I always thought they just poured the thing out of a bottle into a big mold and waited. Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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