Friday Update, February 3, 2012

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Ailantd

Even with matte paint at very tangent angles the material becomes reflective.
Here you have some images where this effect its clearly visible. It helps a lot to give a photo feeling to the image and material:







Here you can see a full reflection under the wing. Also in aircraft in the background you can see reflections and direct sun shining.


Etc...
Even more, at right angles even mate paint shines a lot. Without that matte it simply become blinding and even blinding when reflecting the sun.

but this has been discussed a lot.

You do know that warbirds today are painted with gloss coats....nothing like the matt used in service.