Truck exhaust pipes

Graham;

   I usually use Children sized drinking straws and Foil Chrome them .

If you look at any of Mustang 1989’s recent auto projects here over the past few years, he uses the aluminum tubng to replace the kit exhaust pipes. After he thins down the walls and polishes them up, they look superb. 

GMorrison

You're going to soon hear that it isn't the correct way, Don.

 

 

 

I've also brush plated brass tubing for a chrome finish, but that is a lot of work too.  I think I still have the outfit but don't even know where it is, but my Alclad bottles are right in my paint drawer :-)

You're going to soon hear that it isn't the correct way, Don.

I recently had fun scratchbuilding, (sorry I meant kit bashing), a Nemo diving suit. I made the air hoses the old way wrapping thin solder around a wire core.

Graham Green

If you do as stated in the original post, that is use ALUMINIUM and POLISH it ---- ( the Alumium tubing ),  it will then look like a Chromed Steel exhaust pipe, easy as, eh.

As in all forms of modelling, all your trying to do is "trick the eye", Trompe-l'œil, so if you can do that, you have achieved your goal.

 

And for brass, after priming, give it a nice gloss black undercoat and finish with Chrome or Polished Aluminum Alclad.

Oh, forgot. Solder, copper wire, even glass.

Thanks for clearing that up.

BTW I have made pipes out of pasta, rolled up putty, brass, aluminum, styrene and old wire.

If you do as stated in the original post, that is use ALUMINIUM and POLISH it ---- ( the Alumium tubing ),  it will then look like a Chromed Steel exhaust pipe, easy as, eh.

As in all forms of modelling, all your trying to do is "trick the eye", Trompe-l'œil, so if you can do that, you have achieved your goal.

No Graham, but I've never seen an ALUMINUM one either, as your post suggested. I'd suspect that the post refers to a brass pipe that then gets finished silver.

I'd probably use styrene, but I know the word is offensive to you.

Don Stauffer

Most K&S brass tubing is hardened, and needs to be annealed to bend.

Haven't ever seen a BRASS exhaust pipe on a truck, has anybody else ever seen a brass one ?

Most K&S brass tubing is hardened, and needs to be annealed to bend.  However, they do make 1/8 tubing unhardened. It is used to make fuel lines for RC planes.  You may need to go to a hobby shop that specializes in RC planes to find it.

Here's an exhaust pipe made from aluminium and polished, just to show what it looks like when done. Click onto the picture and then go for the expanded view.