Where is the...

[JOACH1M]

CHROME! I always thought plane skins that were chrome in RL should shine in the great big AH sun! I know the skinners can't be the problem...

[Karnak]

CHROME! I always thought plane skins that were chrome in RL should shine in the great big AH sun! I know the skinners can't be the problem...

Don't think any WWII birds shone like you are thinking.  The extremely shiny "chrome" look of some restored aircraft is a modern thing.  I don't think you want your fighter to reflect like that as it makes you too easy to spot.

[JOACH1M]

Don't think any WWII birds shone like you are thinking.  The extremely shiny "chrome" look of some restored aircraft is a modern thing.  I don't think you want your fighter to reflect like that as it makes you too easy to spot.

Some pacific sbd and wildcat reports I have read claimed they would a glint of shinty aluminum coming down from on top of them time to time




Yes I want my enemy to see me

[AWwrgwy]

Some pacific sbd and wildcat reports I have read claimed they would a glint of shinty aluminum coming down from on top of them time to time

The top of what?
The Bloo Navy planes or the Green/Grey Japanese planes?
Aluminum P-38s?


wrongway

[JOACH1M]

The top of what?
The Bloo Navy planes or the Green/Grey Japanese planes?
Aluminum P-38s?


wrongway

The a6m2 skin was all chrome...


What meant on top was the zeros diving in on their formations

[Karnak]

A6M2s were a white of some shade, not bare metal.

[Shifty]

The a6m2 skin was all chrome...

Nope gray/green. Some more gray some more green.

[JOACH1M]

Nope gray/green. Some more gray some more green.

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That's a referbished zeke. Probably a after war paint job.

A6M2s were a white of some shade, not bare metal.

you are right

[JOACH1M]

Maybe just maybe some American pilot cared enough to shine up their birds in their "off" time

[Krupinski]

German pilots on the Eastern Front knew when to disengage the Russians in air combat and get out when they saw the sun reflecting off American P51s in the distance.

[AWwrgwy]

Maybe just maybe some American pilot cared enough to shine up their birds in their "off" time

Wax, not polished.

Your own example, "glint of shinty aluminum" is the reason.

Speed, not "Look at me!"


wrongway

[sunfan1121]

I remember hearing that Pappy Boyington would strip all the paint off his planes so that they could attract the enemy.

[Krusty]

I would doubt that very much.

[Reaper90]

Pappy did that to attract Chuck Norris, who would of course have plenty of enemy chasing him... then he would whip all of 'em, Chuck included.

[badhorse]

CHROME! I always thought plane skins that were chrome in RL should shine in the great big AH sun! I know the skinners can't be the problem...

I am unaware of any airplane (real ones anyway) that were chromed. The shinny surface you see is just polished aluminum. Not sure when Boeing stopped painting their bombers and delivered them with just the bare aluminum surface. It saved weight and by the end of the war, we had so many of them there was no need to camouflage them.