Spaceship Paint Jobs

>>  Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:04:03 -0400 (EDT)
>>  From: Mike Miserendino <phddms1@cris.com>
>>  Subject: Re: Help!!
...

Now, I can understand why you'd not want everything a uniform unpainted
metal color, for looks, and assuming different fab technologies and
metals 
used, it's justifiable. Just imagine that the greenish-brown hue of one 
culture's ships, or of some parts of your otherwise grey ship is from a 
difference in metallurgy.

>>  I recommend checking actual photos of real ships as well as
spacecraft to
>>  help get some ideas.  I plan to use some cool camo schemes on my NSL
and
>>  Kra'Vak.  These are some ideas that I use, hope it helps.

But, this seems weird to me. 

First, unless the craft will be sitting on some rock, or on a planetary 
surface, why bother camo it? It's going to be targetted with radar,
laser 
sensors, etc., not eyeballs. It's too damn far away! If anything paint 
it black.

Second, how do you paint something in space? Spray guns will act like 
thrusters pushing you away from the paint job, and I'd not recommend
rollers or brushes, either. (Unless you want to believe the intro to 
Red Dwarf.)

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