"Rusty FV432s" Topic
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| Kropotkin303 | 14 Feb 2015 4:12 a.m. PST |
Hi all, I have seen somewhere someone painted their FV432s with rusty exhaust pipes and wondered if this was a fiction or if they did tend to rust-up in operational conditions. Also I've seen Scorpions with the same thing. I kind of like the effect it gives and it would help id the vehicles in 1/300th scale. Here are a couple of pics.
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| FreddBloggs | 14 Feb 2015 4:45 a.m. PST |
All exhaust pipes made from iron or steel rust up, but military crews would spent time cleaning and repainting them whenever they got the chance to stop them rusting through. So units in action for any amount of time would likely show some signs, fresh out of camp, no. |
 Legion 4  | 14 Feb 2015 7:38 a.m. PST |
Yes, exhausts like those have will rust up. The exhausts on my "beloved" M113, the US brother of the UK FV432, were shorter and less exposed … So rarely did we have as big a problem with exhaust rust … link |
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