Thread: STEALTH Fighter Black - How To???

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I doubt the general public know what the paint looks like up close. Just go flat black. If you ever have to strip it, you might have made a lot of work for yourself with the thick products.

Are you mixing up two different types of stealth technology? Radar stealth requires absorption of radio waves by a special coating but sonar stealth for ships uses the rubbery absorption of sound "pings". A rubbery paint coating on a metal automobile probably would do little to reduce State Trooper radar reflection, although the question is interesting in the case of a fiberglass car. As suggested above it is probably best to just use a flat black, add ghost flames and enjoy the visual effect. Probably the lump of iron in the motor will provide a radar reflection even with a fiberglass car and a metal car with some smooth surfaces will reflect radio waves nicely. After all a trunk mounted CB antenna uses the metal trunk lid to form the bottom half of a "P-wave" since most CB antennas use a half-wave whip type sending antenna .

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I just remember a show on Discovery or History Channel or Modern Marvels or something that mentioned the STealth fighter having a rubbery or soft texture to the "special" paint.

If I go with just plain old flat black, is flat black flat black flat black no matter who the manuf., or paint type? Has anybody used a flat black that came out well?