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Early Soviet jets, metal or painted ?


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my understanding of this is imperfect, but I have heard that the Soviets overheated the natural metal with a clear lacquer pigmented with some, but not so much to make it opaque, aluminum powder.  That is why you can see panels yet the overall color appears to be uniform at the same time.   

 

 

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