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Quick Tip: Weathering Ordnance
Tin_Can
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 09:20 AM UTC
Paul Parsons (warlock0322) has submitted a great reference article on why you should be weathering all those "dangly things" on your aircraft. Thanks for the article Paul.

Weathering Ordnance
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 09:52 AM UTC
Thanks Paul

Really neat!! Full-size refs are invaluable....

It's amazing how dirty even modern-day ordnance looks when it's loaded.

Great pics

Rowan
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 05:35 PM UTC
Great Paul.
Another area to look at. Very useful. And the break down of your "modellettes" is a great guide for modellers old and new.
Thanks.
Cheers
Peter
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 08:07 PM UTC
Thanks guys for the kind words. It was just an idea that hit me one day and decided to write it down is all.
Thanks Tin for the work it took to post it. I just hope it wasn't too much work to correct the spelling and gramma errors. Which are not my stong suit.
Thanks Again and anymore help I can give don't hesitate to ask.

Paul
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 10:59 PM UTC
:-) Nice one Paul, very useful and plenty of food for thought. More please
Mal
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Posted: Saturday, January 24, 2004 - 11:40 PM UTC
Nice one! Great tip! Keep 'em coming!!
SS-74
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Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 04:46 AM UTC
Paul, this is awesome stuff, as we had discussed in the chat, um.... lots of options for the soon to be built F105G there then... Thanks! :-)
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Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 01:00 PM UTC
Very nicely written, Paul !!!! I am going to try it out on my next "Wingy Thingy"



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boatswain
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Posted: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 01:33 AM UTC
Definitely something to keep in mind when I get around to building on of the three aircraft kits I have that keep staring me in the face on my workbench!

Thanks Paul

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Posted: Friday, October 15, 2004 - 07:05 PM UTC
Warlock, glad to see someone has exposed this overlooked part of air modeling. I have noted that bombs look nasty in photos, and the recent books of color photos, such as 8th AF in Color, really suprised me about how rusty these things could get.

Thanks!
gharlane
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Posted: Friday, October 15, 2004 - 09:04 PM UTC
great tip , this is one area i had not considered to weather, it does make sense to weather this area also in that, as stated above, it takes the same amount of use and abuse as the aircraft itself.

again thanks for the tip
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