>>8831486While mechanical wear is very minimal, chipping for example is 90% concentrated in the crew hatches, mud and streaked dirt from sides is something important to represent with crews walking around, getting splashed by shelling (most crews seemed to be lucky at that point not to get blown to scrap while positioning around or waiting it seems) or other vehicles driving near gets em dirty like no one business. All weathering on this build comes from patching together references how really got dirty turretless afvs and where as I didn't even want to think too much tho
It's interesting to see pics of them in rally points or depots and then the contrast of the things running around, destroyed units vary a lot and can't be trusted a lot.
About modern vehicles don't get me started, pic related straight outta wikipedia looks way worse in rust and tear for example. Or the german vehicle during exercises you could skip painting the lower hull in nato camouflage and do it straight up in light mud to save paint and time. Just because it's modern doesn't mean anything on what tear and dirt they get.
Don't fall for low IQ secondary opinions and memes little anons, set the environment conditions of the model and look real refences of weathering, apply what you need for your build. Simple as.
>>8831508I guess the underside and specially wheels would get a slightly dusty at least. This book seems interesting, if it's worthy to get I guess it depends if you're gonna build more wwI stuff but you can get some ideas from the sample pages.
http://www.euromodelismo.com/shop1/es/libros-ingles/884-preorder-airplanes-in-scale-primera-guerra-mundial-ingles.htmlDon't know if you could try to look up pics and try to extract something from a grainy ass bw picture but seems unlikely to me