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Part II here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/martin-pbm-mariner-color-photographs-part-ii/
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Thanks Jeff! This a/c is one I find interesting because it’s one of those USN a/c one just never hears much about, even among us a/c geeks.
That image of “Nickle Boat” from the front is a great study in weathering on these beasts. The bottom of the fuselage/hull looks for all the world as if it’s rusty, but surely the a/c is skinned in aluminum. I wonder why it looks like rust?
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I figure that’s some sort of primer or epoxy to seal the hull, like you say there should be nothing there that can rust!
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I’d say most likely a primer or epoxy as you said, but the unwary modeler will think “rust” and go forward with rust weathering.
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Going back in time…
1958…
As a ten-year old looking at model kits displayed in a men’s store.
One was a model kit of this plane. It was Revell’s rendition of it.
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Great post Jeff, thanks
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