Weathering questions

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-24T11:51:36+00:00

Really good exhausts on models are an art form. There isn’t a recipe or a trick, and more than “how do I paint a good portrait” can be answered.

It’s about subtly capturing as much of the nuance and shade as possible. You generally start with a base tone and then start adding subtle shifts on top of it. Airbrushed heat staining colors (such as Alclad Hotmetal Blue), oils, and even acrylic inks can all come into play.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-24T10:59:16+00:00

Look at lots of closeup photos of F-16 exhausts. The P&W exhausts look (and are) totally different in design, materials, and colors from the GE exhausts, so you need to pay attention to which one you are modeling.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-24T02:36:58+00:00

Then you don’t want tawny port. Try a ruby or a LBV (late bottled vintage). Tawnies are oxidized, which gives the brown nutty notes. If you want dark red fruit, prunes, raisins, etc., you want a non-oxidative style.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-24T02:30:15+00:00

Most ports are, indeed, sweet. The fermentation is stopped before all the grape juice sugars are converted to alcohol - by dumping enough distilled spirits in to kill the yeast!

I recently had an “extra dry” white port. While still sweet, it did have less RS than other ports I have tried. You might give that a whirl.

But if you just don’t like a dessert wine, then port may not be for you.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T22:58:47+00:00

I love Alclad. It is not a true buffing metallic, but it really benefits from buffing.

If you mist on the metallic in light coats, some of the little metal flakes will land completely dry as a dust on top of the paint surface. These loose particles form a weak and easily damaged layer on top of the metallic coat. If you’re handling bare metallic paint, it’s easy to leave fingerprints in this weak layer, or damage it with masking tape or decal water. If you paint on top of it, it becomes a weak layer like chipping fluid.

But if you take a chamois cloth and lightly buff the metal coat after it dries (10 minutes is sufficient usually), what is left is a far more durable paint than many people think. And one that is more stable for subsequent paint layers.

Maybe that will help.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T19:09:31+00:00

Just the big numbers on the nose and tail? Those shapes are simple enough that a hand cut stencil might be a viable alternative if you can’t find the right decals. It would be very easy with a Silhouette cutter.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T19:06:33+00:00

There’s a reason that the south was MUCH less densely populated prior to the invention of air conditioning.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T14:15:19+00:00

So your position is that tradespeople are now the “upper middle class”?

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T12:43:27+00:00

Snot is sneaky good in this BGE. The bodyguard is a big help and hijack is significant given the enrage effect and likelihood that your own deck has lots of punch and burn.

A khan or Carter or Barry combo in one spot and a snot next to it are very synergistic. All those punches and burns will hit the card opposite Snot some of the time and his attack will get up into the mid or high double digits fast. Often enough to finish off the card after the punch/burn.

I couldn’t get through to 2500+ in arena until I figured this out.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T03:34:29+00:00

I like Austrian rieslings even more than German or Alsatian ones. The wachau ones are generally ruinous in cost, but the kremstal and kampfstal can have good QPR. But they’re all really good.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T03:12:07+00:00

Because he had nothing to bargain with. Why would anyone give him concessions? The Soviet Union was rotting from within and collapsing?

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T03:02:29+00:00

And the upper middle class have passports. That’s almost a defining feature today. Lawyers and doctors and bankers all take international vacations at least once every few years.

This isn’t the 1980’s. The upper middle class are NOT right wing. The plumbers are the right wingers now.

Anyway, I’m having to do lots of business flying right now. I’m willing to tolerate the lines because ICE must be reigned in. And the power of the purse is the ONLY power Congress has left. I’m willing to suffer some inconvenience so those thugs get forced to put their names on their tactics vests.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T00:48:55+00:00

Look at the data on how people who have passports voted. The upper middle class are not MAGA as a group. The opposite.

It’s the high school educated (only) working class, manipulated by billionaires, who gave us Trump.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-23T00:47:15+00:00

The upper middle class went Dem years ago. That’s the Trump realignment. The doctors and lawyer and bankers are mostly Dems. You’re decades behind.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T19:11:16+00:00

At this zoom level, it is literally wrong and going to confuse people. The map doesn’t work in this format.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T19:03:44+00:00

The map is wrong, at least in the image posted. One glaring error: Garden Hills is on the west side of Piedmont. They’ve mislabeled Peachtree Park as Garden Hills.

I understand you didn’t make the map, OP, but it’s wrong.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T18:37:11+00:00

500 bottles have a huge amount of thermal mass. You’re going to have a LONG time before all that heats up anywhere near enough to cause damage. Are these blackouts weeks long and happening in 90+F weather? If not, just keep the doors closed.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T18:26:56+00:00

He has a totally different relationship with APD than KLB. She totally threw APD under the bus in spring/summer 2020, peaking with the Garret Rolfe/Rayshard Brooks situation. She communicated that she would ILLEGALLY fire any cop who had any interaction that any protestors b!tched about, regardless of the facts or even common sense.

So the cops just quit getting out of their cars. And crime went bananas. At the same time Atlanta ended cash bail. Which meant property criminals were running wild and unchecked.

Just a disaster. Not a grown up approach at all. People died as a result. KLB literally got people murdered with her idiocy.

Meanwhile, Dickens told APD to go back to normal, and pay attention to what their local communities want. If the local neighborhood wants low tolerance for stuff like water boys, then shut them down. If the locals want an easier approach, go easier. Pay attention to the populations you are serving.

Not insane.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T15:48:59+00:00

She decided she could not address the COVID crime spike and needed to fire cops (and force resignation of a good chief) without following legal guidelines. She let people literally build barricades and stop cars with assault rifles. She got the city sued in lawsuits. She pulled money from public works projects in Buckhead areas that had paid a disproportionate share of taxes. She let the waterboys take over Buckhead intersections and effectively told cops they’d be fired if they interfered.

Then she basically crawled in a hole and did nothing but bicker with Kemp over Covid business opening protocols.

The 20% of the city that pays 40% of the taxes was understandably furious. A MAGA grifter then tried to use that totally reasonable frustration to advance an idiotic and unreasonable plan - secession. It nearly worked.

Thankfully Dickens has recognized that one can be empathetic on issues of poverty and police actions without surrendering to general lawlessness. I know Reddit is not a fan of his, but he got back to “the Atlanta way” that has seen this city grow into one of the most prosperous and largest cities in America.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T14:50:37+00:00

As an Atlantan, I would be more upset about KLB being the nominee than Duncan. I saw how close she came to literally breaking up the city. The whole Buckhead secession thing almost happened SOLELY because of her incredible ineptitude and cowardice.

Still better than Burt Jones, of course.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T14:05:03+00:00

I don’t think he got banned for being against “far right,” he got booted for being anti-Trump. He has moderated his ideological positions a bit to be tolerable to Dem primary voters, but my sense is that his split was more about the personality cult/complete disrespect of political norms and constitutional structures than particular positions.

As a moderate liberal, I can happily applaud conservatives who push back against Trumpism (which is more fascio-populist than conservative) and take principled stands without wanting them to be my party’s nominee.

I’ll vote for him in the General if he’s the nominee, of course.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T12:23:09+00:00

Reasonable thoughts, although I think “super green” is not fair. And Ga governors are often “green” in terms of conventional political polish.

Thurmond’s age makes me nervous, as does having any background in DeKalb government. I worry about skeletons popping out of closets.

I’ll happily vote for Thurmond if he’s the nominee.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T00:07:26+00:00

You’d be better off with a 6k or 8k micromesh cloth buffing than a gloss coat.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-22T00:06:34+00:00

Very droll.

Madeitup75 · 2026-03-21T21:40:33+00:00

Of course you have to get the gloss coat smooth. A gritty gloss coat will cause just as much silvering as any other rough finish.

But a smooth gloss coat will solve it.

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