Aircraft "skin"

• Jul 20, 2012

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meatloaf109

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I have noticed that we modelers often forget about the stresses that aluminimum undergoes in the course of the service.
Just sayin'

 

• Sep 21, 2012

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Melonfish

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- flippant answer: yeah but a good massage should sort that.
- scientific answer: Surely you mean Duraluminium sir?
- modelers answer: not sure what you're getting at

 

• Sep 21, 2012

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herman1rg

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Rippling?

 

• Sep 21, 2012

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meatloaf109

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yes, and the dents. I was looking at some pictures of old aircraft and noticed the irregularities that were on the airframe and thought about judging at model contests.

 

• Sep 22, 2012

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stona

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Most of us don't do it because it is tedious and difficult. A bit of subtle shading will often be enough on camouflaged models. There are those that choose to do it as demonstrated here.

Stressed Skin Effect for Model Aircraft by Klaus Herold

Steve

 

• Sep 22, 2012

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Wayne Little

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it's a great effect, but as Steve points out, a time consuming job....

 

• Sep 22, 2012

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meatloaf109

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stona said:

Most of us don't do it because it is tedious and difficult. A bit of subtle shading will often be enough on camouflaged models. There are those that choose to do it as demonstrated here.

Stressed Skin Effect for Model Aircraft by Klaus Herold

Steve

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That is great!

 

• Sep 22, 2012

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Rogi

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With some judges, it could hurt your chances of attaining a placing in the competition, unless you provided like color photos in HD quality where it like jumps out all 3D ish in their face. Then you might lose regardless for over trying

You always need lots of proof for stuff. I remember this one model that had excellent everything, but 1 W in the decals was mis-aligned and they docked him points, couple days later he sends them the pic of the aircraft and that W in the photo is actually mis-aligned in real life so he would of at least placed, but unfortunatley sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose