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danl@col.hp.com (Daniel Lockhart) writes:
>Has anyone done any gold windows such are used on the F117?  I'm
>about to waterdown some gold paint and airbrush them, just want to
>check on other ways first.

This gave me an idea I just *had* to try.  So I just got out my Testors
F-19 Stealth Fighter (the pretty fiction, not the ugly truth), my
collection of SnJ Spray Metal products, and some Q-tip swabs.

I took a Q-tip, and dabbed it into the gold polishing powder, then
rubbed it onto the canopy.  The result?  I *really* had to do a
polishing job on that canopy - this stuff showed up flaws in the
surface like a microscope!  So I polished rather heavily with the
SnJ powder itself, went through a couple of Q-tips and a few tissues, but
the powder I'd already spread on did the polishing, too.  Then I
wiped it off of the outside, and dabbed some more on the inside - a bit
mottled, but careful work with the Q-tip as a 'powder puff' on the inside
while looking thru from the outside, and in less than half an hour *total*,
I had a look that I like.  I made it a bit heavier at the front and 
lighter toward the back, like "gradient" sunglasses.

What I've done is to essentially use the powder as a dry pastel.

Try it!  Worst case, you polish it out & wipe it off, "wasting" a little
of your SnJ.

A variation of this would be to put on a clear-coat first, and polish
the gold into that - harder to wipe off and restart, but more permanent
and smudge resistant when it's done.  A clear-coat over what I've already
done could work, too.  I *might* try this with some Future acrylic,
but not tonight X-}


	Bob   IPMS#4157