RE: Hammer's Slammers and Iridium

	Maybe silver with a bit of metallic blue?  Aluminum & blue? 
This might 
take some work.  I wonder if giving it a normal paint job would
interfere 
with it's properties?
	But one of the best things about making stuff out of Iridium is
this:  the 
best source is asteroids!  Good reason to go mining those belts!  And to

fight over those mining facilities...

Noah

-----Original Message-----
From:	Thomas Barclay [SMTP:Thomas.Barclay@sofkin.ca]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 28, 1998 03:53 PM
To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
Subject:	Re: Hammer's Slammers and Iridium

Jeff spake thusly upon matters weighty:

Now the question is, would Steel or Silver be a better colour to
paint the vehicles? I think maybe Steel is a tad closer, but I'm not
sure. I've yet to see a paint in "Iridium" yet. :)

>
> A while back, I recall someone asking what color iridium was so that
he
> could paint up some Slammer's hovertanks.
>
> I've been re-reading the series and found a picture of some iridium
> laboratory vessels at:
>
> <http://www.matthey.com/noble/product/prfire.htm>
>
> This site also has some interesting info on the properties of iridium 
which
> explain why it would be useful as armor against powerguns (highly
> refractive and "the only pure metal which can be used unprotected in
air 
at
> temperatures up to 2300 degrees C (4172 degrees F) without
catastrophic
> failure")
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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