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- From: obrien@netcom.com (No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB)
- Subject: Re: F117 Gold windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.090141.23292@netcom.com>
- Organization: Not lately - this place could sure use some!
- References: <1jp4iuINN7ub@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:01:41 GMT
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- danl@col.hp.com (Daniel Lockhart) writes:
- >Has anyone done any gold windows such are used on the F117? I'm
- >about to waterdown some gold paint and airbrush them, just want to
- >check on other ways first.
-
- This gave me an idea I just *had* to try. So I just got out my Testors
- F-19 Stealth Fighter (the pretty fiction, not the ugly truth), my
- collection of SnJ Spray Metal products, and some Q-tip swabs.
-
- I took a Q-tip, and dabbed it into the gold polishing powder, then
- rubbed it onto the canopy. The result? I *really* had to do a
- polishing job on that canopy - this stuff showed up flaws in the
- surface like a microscope! So I polished rather heavily with the
- SnJ powder itself, went through a couple of Q-tips and a few tissues, but
- the powder I'd already spread on did the polishing, too. Then I
- wiped it off of the outside, and dabbed some more on the inside - a bit
- mottled, but careful work with the Q-tip as a 'powder puff' on the inside
- while looking thru from the outside, and in less than half an hour *total*,
- I had a look that I like. I made it a bit heavier at the front and
- lighter toward the back, like "gradient" sunglasses.
-
- What I've done is to essentially use the powder as a dry pastel.
-
- Try it! Worst case, you polish it out & wipe it off, "wasting" a little
- of your SnJ.
-
- A variation of this would be to put on a clear-coat first, and polish
- the gold into that - harder to wipe off and restart, but more permanent
- and smudge resistant when it's done. A clear-coat over what I've already
- done could work, too. I *might* try this with some Future acrylic,
- but not tonight X-}
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- Bob IPMS#4157
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