Re: Painting irridium vehicles

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >Roger Books wrote:
> >
> >> I'm going to paint a set  of vehicles Hammer's Slammers style.
> >> One problem, I have never seen a piece of irridium.  The online
> >> sites say "bluish white".
> >>
> >> Anyone have any suggestions?  I'm thinking steel with a blue
> >> ink glaze or maybe silver with blue mixed in, but I'm really
> >> not sure.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Roger Books
> >
> >Hammer's Slammers is a no-nonsense unit that does not let anything
get
> >in the way of collecting the victory bonus, so the vehicles will have
> >the appropriate camouflage pattern (which is unlikely to be bare
> >metal).  I think only "Nameless" ever went into combat without paint
> >[either _Rolling_Hot_ or _Counting_the_Cost (the one where some rear
> >area people form a relief column)], as it was pressed into service as
> >soon as it was uncrated.
>
> I agree that the vehicles probably should be camo-painted to make
sense,
> and certainly all the ones that the Warlords use for their big
Slammers
> game are, but there ARE a number of references in the books (IIRC) to
a
> "dull sheen" of Iridium armour (or some similar phrase) that implies
they
> are actually bare metal; I suppose this COULD be read as seeing
patches of
> bare armour where paint has been burned off....?

This is one of those areas where I allow myself the luxury of being
wrong, as
it has been quite some time since I read it.  Though I would not be
surprised
if non-penetrating powergun hits polished the metal.