Meng MK V exhaust

[Faraway]

A small part I know, but I’m struggling to paint the exhaust system to look rusty. The instructions suggest silver, but I don’t think that’s right. So I need to create rusty steel.

Any help will be most appreciated.

[dogsbody]

Rusty or heat-stained? 

 

 

 

Chris

[Graham Boak]

Exhausts really did start out as bright steel.  So if you are doing a model in an immaculate scheme, fresh from the factory, then there should be little heat staining.  On the other hand, iof you are doing a subject that has been well used, then look to the recent thread on the Beaufighter Mk.I for guidance.

[Faraway]

20 minutes ago, dogsbody said:

Rusty or heat-stained? 

 

 

 

Chris

Hadn’t thought of that. So, rusty for the whole system, but with perhaps heat staining on the ends of the silencer where the exhaust gas enters.

[Faraway]

1 minute ago, Graham Boak said:

Exhausts really did start out as bright steel.  So if you are doing a model in an immaculate scheme, fresh from the factory, then there should be little heat staining.  On the other hand, iof you are doing a subject that has been well used, then look to the recent thread on the Beaufighter Mk.I for guidance.

Def not factory fresh. Thanks will have a look.

[Graham Boak]

Spitfires don't have silencers.  The exhausts coming from each cylinder is either combined with its neighbour into six pipes (Mk.V) or taken individually to the exterior.

 

[Faraway]

4 minutes ago, Graham Boak said:

Spitfires don't have silencers.  The exhausts coming from each cylinder is either combined with its neighbour into six pipes (Mk.V) or taken individually to the exterior.

 

Sorry, my mistake, but I’m building a WW1 MK V tank.

[dogsbody]

6 minutes ago, Faraway said:

Sorry, my mistake, but I’m building a WW1 MK V tank.

 

I knew that.

 

 

 

Chris

[Faraway]

43 minutes ago, dogsbody said:

 

I knew that.

 

 

 

Chris

Chris.

I knew you did, but.......

Jon

[Graham Boak]

OOps.  I didn't...  Sorry.  Still, I think most of the answer was still sensible - or at least I hope so.

[dogsbody]

 

 

 

Chris

[Faraway]

2 hours ago, Graham Boak said:

OOps.  I didn't...  Sorry.  Still, I think most of the answer was still sensible - or at least I hope so.

They are, indeed. I’m still struggling with the finish, lots of experiments.

[Kingsman]

The top run of the exhaust pipe across the hull top might have been wrapped with asbestos "bandage". Some Mk IVs certainly had this. I used thin masking tape on one of my Mk IVs.

 

It is plausible that the exhaust pipes might have been galvanised, one of the few corrosion protection techniques then available. A dull metallic grey rather than bright.

[Faraway]

6 hours ago, Das Abteilung said:

The top run of the exhaust pipe across the hull top might have been wrapped with asbestos "bandage". Some Mk IVs certainly had this. I used thin masking tape on one of my Mk IVs.

 

It is plausible that the exhaust pipes might have been galvanised, one of the few corrosion protection techniques then available. A dull metallic grey rather than bright.

My thoughts are the same. Dull grey and then dry brushed dull red.

[Bozothenutter]

Maybe add some reddish pigments in there aswell?

[Kingsman]

Bovington's MkV does not currently have a wrapped exhaust, but the pipe looks a little too new and bright to be 101/2 years old and is possibly not original bearing in mind that it was parked outside for many years.  What is there now is dull silver and potentially galvanised.  Unlike the Mk IV there are no factory variations for the Mk V as they were all built by BRCW, by then under Metroplitan control.

 

[Golikell]

Looks almost like a metal rain pipe as seen outside older houses...