>>10315789Fuck no. He encourage weathering since it enhanced realism. Back then, there were two types of model makers: diorama modelers and miniature builders. Before 3D printers, professional miniature builders made showroom models for corporate salespeople. It makes since these corporations often commissioned scale models that represented an idealized portrait of whatever they were selling, whether it be a forklift or airliner. Paine pioneered diorama building, and he is often mistakenly attributed to inventing the box diorama. He encouraged modelling shadows and weathering since that is what the actual machines looked like in action.
Look at this Paine diorama that he made using the (frankly awful) Monogram half-track kit. The half-track has weathering, and the figures that he modified and resculpted helps in portraying a story. You never get this from Paul Boyer or any of the later Finescale Modeler contributers.
>>10315762>>10315992Paine pioneered miniature figure painting and sculpted the figures himself, dipshit. He also popularized weathering in scale modelling. Without him, this hobby wouldn't exist as it is today. Without him, most of the builds you would see today would be of the sterile boomer kind with only a light pin wash. Before any Slav or Chinese modeler, there was Shep Paine.
