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- From: myoung@mail.boi.hp.com (Matt_Young)
- Subject: Re: Engine weathering
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:43:47 GMT
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- I received this email from Tom and thought it might be of general interest.
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- From: Thomas C. Madden tom@drutx.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories Denver
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- Unless you're using very high pressure for spraying, it's
- unlikely that the chalk weathering is being blown off. But you
- are changing the reflective properties of the surface. This
- thread came up a while back, and here's a section of what I
- e-mailed then:
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- You need a rough surface to hold the chalk. You might try a
- light spray of dullcote, delivered from farther away than
- normal, so the spray is almost dry as it hits. You'll also want
- to apply a normal coat of dullcote after you're done, to seal in
- the chalk. Otherwise it'll rub off with handling. This final
- coat will also change the appearance of your weathering. The
- effect of chalk weathering is in large part due to the
- micro-roughness of the chalk itself. (This has nothing to do
- with the roughness of the surface previously mentioned. That was
- just to get the chalk to stick.) When you seal in the
- micro-roughness, even with a "flat" spray, you completely change
- the reflective nature of the surface, and a lot of the
- weathering effect disappears. This is very pronounced for
- light-colored weathering on dark cars, and much less so for dark
- weathering on light cars. When weathering boxcar red cars, I
- have to make them look garish, almost cartoonish, with lots of
- "extra" weathering so they look right after the seal coat.
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- Hint: eastern cars weather due to rain, soot and corrosion.
- Western cars due to sun bleaching and abrasion. Thus eastern
- cars tend to weather dark, and western cars light.
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- Tom
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- Matt Young (myoung@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com) Hewlett Packard Network Printer Div.
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