John R Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 I can't believe I don't know this but were Sea Hawks painted in glossy, satin or flat finish? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 (edited) If I recall correctly the one in the East Fortune museum is pretty glossy but not a high gloss. I'd go for a half way house between gloss and satin. I am not sure how representative the museum machine is. It may have been repainted for preservation purposes. Looking at it at times I thought "its satin". Then a light hits is and its glossy! I wondered if it had been a higher gloss and then just worn a bit dull in service? How you get to that effect in painting I am not sure! Mix the varnish coats maybe? I'd try a test piece though first PS just looked at the Google photos of her and she is definitely gloss cum satinish sort of.............. Have a look and you will find some times a wing looks glossy and in the next on the fuselage looks satin. Thats what I recalled seeing. I suspect I'd go for a satin finish myself if looking at an in service machine to allow for weathering Edited November 15, 2017 by JohnT additional unhelpful info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darby Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 (edited) Gloss; BS5381C-638, Dark Sea Grey Gloss. That's from the I/C of the spray bay at EGDR when I enquired. They carried out the last spraying of the gate guardian there. It's what I painted my recent CA Seahawk in. My current Trumpy one is primed ready for an application of said colour. EDIT; I did knock the gloss back a bit with a slightly satin varnish finish for a scale effect. Edited November 15, 2017 by Darby Addendum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 They were painted in gloss paint, but didn't take long for the paint to flatten off to a satin and then patchy matt effect, especially the carrier based aircraft. I find a couple of top coats of Klear gives a good representation of a freshly painted jet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin W Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 RAF aircraft were gloss until 1974 ish then changed to satin. RN aircraft stayed glossy up to and including the Harrier. It is worth adding a little bit of flat to avoid an unrealistic gloss for scale effect though. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John R Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 I'm using Xtracrylix which looks to have about the right level of 'glossiness' but I may have to flatten it a bit. However WV908 (RNHF a/c) always looks pristine. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglierating Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Gotta agree with darby....gloss but use a dab of satin for scale effect. Certainly when RNHF was navy the seahawk was glossy...."lovingly" polished with wadpol by AEMs.......QM Seahawk me its in my peach tradesmans book of experience......which I never used when I left the Roger Nigel.....they told us alsorts of BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xvtonker Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Very simple answer... Gloss XVTonker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalea Posted November 30, 2017 Share Posted November 30, 2017 Actually, "smooth" (which they certainly were) does not equal "gloss". " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony.t Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 To my eye 1960s-1970s British aircraft finishes were like contemporaneous car paint finishes - primer then gloss but the "gloss" was more akin to kitchen appliance shine, not modern "diamond glossy". Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 On 11/30/2017 at 9:03 PM, dalea said: Actually, "smooth" (which they certainly were) does not equal "gloss". " The paint specification was for gloss finish. Agree with Tony.T above about older and new paint finishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModellerUK Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Correct, I do believe they were gloss but when/if you add weathering it will tone down the high gloss to more of a natural shine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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