ORIGINAL: crasharama
Hi Strykaas,
i dont know anything about this process other than what I have read in the warbirds forums, & the F86 thread here, but I did find that it only added 11oz to the total weight. It is a Yellow aircraft P38.
It is an amazing process that they are very cagey about saying too much about how they do it (as I would be too!!!)
I still think the shuttle would look awesome, just glad it's not me that has to polish it
Tony..
They are cagey because it is NOT a proprietary process, they have no patent on it. A sculptor friend of mine, who KNOWS his metals, saw it at the WRAM show and explained it all to me, how it is NOT some secret thing developed for model airplanes...
They are cagey about PRICES, that's for sure.
I saw the P-38, it was not bad, but it was NOT realistic, either. It looked cool, but not authentic. Flite Metal(another NON-propretary process done up to look like it is somthing unique) was TEN TIMES more realistic. Also, we would not be subjected to thirty-two step-by-step posts that tell nothing about the process, posted every day, as free advertising. Plus you could skip the 500% markup that alumininum tape gets when it "morphs" from plain old aluminum tape into "Flite-Metal" by just ordering it from Harbor Freight or somebody like that. I'm sure they have a Harbor Freight catalog over at NASA, probably in the Executive washroom?
My ol' Granpappy said:
"You can never go wrong with black or chrome!"