Supercoolin
Active Member
Another detail on the Falcon 32" ans 5' studio models is the soot and grime paint directions when weathering the back of the ship around all the exhaust fans. Since there is infinitesimal laminar flow around the ship in space, the only time the soot and dirt would mark up the ship is during atmospheric flight. And when anything flies through the atmosphere, the soot and dirt patterns follow the direction of flight. They way the model has always been weathered is in a pattern that would require the laminar air flow around the ship to go in multiple directions while traveling in the same direction. The soot trails leaving the 6 exhaust fans would all leave precise parallel patterns, not ones spanning in different directions from the center off the ship, as though the ship was traveling in three different directions act the same time. In all the studies of the purpose of the paint patterns for the Falcon, has anyone found a viable answer, based in physics, that explains the three different direction soot trails off the six exhaust fans? As a retired private bi-plane pilot, the soot pattern directions make no logical, accurate or common sense, and really bug the heck out of me. Looking at the soot patterns off the exhaust fans make me think the painter that day was stoned out of his mind and even my friends have asked who screwed up the model paint job when they look at pictures of the toys and high end models. If I don't weather the Falcon that way, it isn't authentic, but if a go ahead and weather like the studio models, if will look like I am to stupid to understand simple laminar air flow characteristics.