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Purely hypothetical question as I have enough modelling projects on the go to last me a lifetime, but anyway. I work at an aircraft museum which contains Neville Duke's red record-breaking Hawker Hunter WB188. It's a beautiful plane, but making a model of it (at least in its current preserved state) would probably be surprisingly difficult- because it's almost completely gloss red, it has very little in the way of colour breakup, and the impeccable care it receives means that the panel lines are barely noticeable. I assume if one were to build a model of it "as it is" that it would look quite toy-like as a result. The only remedies I can think of are either accenting the panel lines via pin-washes or pre-shading for a non-realistic but far more aesthetically pleasing result (tempting but aggravates my inner rivet counter), or alternatively painting it as if it had just landed from one of its many experimental flights and thus was a bit dirtier than we'd keep it (difficult as there's AFAIK very little in the way of colour photos of the plane "in use" and also because it was an experimental aircraft and not a service fighter it wouldn't have gotten as dirty as a regular Hunter). How would you guys go about doing it?