Weathering, whats your opinion?

[Flyingmonster]

Good point,
I do try to research all aircraft I build, thankfully I found some pictures of the exact Rafale I was doing so that helped on that one. But I think that if you cant find the exact aircraft then you could look for pictures of that type in the same time frame, base, campaign and go by them. But who am I to say how people should do there aircraft.

I think that if you think it looks good then thats all that matters, again only my own personal opinion.
There are some realy good points on this subject coming up, any one else?

For my competition build I have done that. I have found pictures of the exact machine I am building and have then found paticular resourses that cover the aircraft in more general terms. I am then going to use them to create the best I can and hopefully do the aircraft some justice I think it is always good to do the odd bit of research as you never know what you will learn or could miss out!!

[HighlandSniper]

When you build a kit, you build a model of the REAL thing, a REAL aircraft (for instance). I mean a specific aircraft rather than type.

Whilst I totally agree with you, reading the hardcore modelling magazines and websites shows that this is clearly not the case with a large proportion of modellers. Pre and post-shading, dry brushing, washing etc. is often carried out religiously regardless of how the original aircraft looks.

In my opinion, a model should be a snapshot in time of a specific aircraft of a specific unit in a specific timeframe, but that is solely my view and not one shared by many out there.

[GOOSE]

If it's your model, built by you, for you, you are happy with it and it gives you pleasure - job done and objective achieved!

[Flyingmonster]

If it's your model, built by you, for you, you are happy with it and it gives you pleasure - job done and objective achieved!

Very Well said Goose!!

[viper3111]

If it's your model, built by you, for you, you are happy with it and it gives you pleasure - job done and objective achieved!

Thats a fair point.

[viper3111]

I think I actualy read an artical once where they said to use a thin black marker to do to panel lines, cant say I would have tried it though. I did see a 144th scale F/A-18 once that looked like someone had done a dot to dot on it (poor little thing).

[viper3111]

I just found this whilst doing a bit of research, it basically says what the general consensus is on here

http://www.modelairplanebuilding.com/weathering.html