Re: DS2:VTOL painting

At 12:23 PM +1000 10/23/01, David Tan wrote:
>I'm currently painting up a flight of Future Wars Attack VTOLs. They
are
>done in a boring olive green with Vallejo khaki for drybrushing.  I've
kept
>the windows black.  Does anyone og to the trouble of embellishing the
>windows with gloss varnish or a few lines to give it that reflective
look?
>Are there any other nifty techniqies I should know about?  Also what
have
>other painters done to their VTOLs (or aerospace fighters for that
matter)?
>Thanks very much.

I usually paint mine a goldish or gunmetalish black. This is on the 
assumption that the windows have an radar reflective/absorbtive 
coating in their makeup for RCS reduction reasons.
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