>>8513492>So are road wheels.I've seen photos of burned down tanks with road wheels melted in a puddle of molten aluminium. Interesting idea for diorama.
I remember one guy was painting T-90 and he really, really wanted to add rust chipping AND be realistic. Turns out (he did some really through research) there is almost no place for rust on "interesting" spot. Almost anything that is weathered and chipped first turned out to be aluminium in real life.
And yes, he got criticized heavily for "lack of rust and too much aluminium chips, like a toy and not a real tank"
>It looks like they care more about going through the expected techniques than actual accuracy.This.
Lots of people are doing weathering "by the guidebook". If it says "Do colour modulation, then streaking, then oil dots, then rust, then chipping", they do it without questioning the realism of weathering.
Some communities are particularly salty about it, criticizing models that don't show all the techniques used by Jimenez in his magazines. In the end you have a stream of over-weathered models without a single attempt at realism.
I have nothing against being unrealistic and using lots of artistic license if the result looks good. But usually it doesn't look good either.
Note the aluminium and metal parts on this one. T-72 chassis.
