Thanks for the warm reception guys.
Welcome aboard! Make 'em as clean or as weathered as YOU like. I like my weathered war weary birds as much as my clean sheltered peacetime builds. I know what Rob means about motor pool condition vs. field condition on armor builds.
with modern armor for example my M60A2 heading for the wash rack after 3 weeks in the field looked different than the same tank3 hours later loading on the flatcar to go home.and somtimes errors will cause you to reevaluate the final look. just do what you like to dobut don’t be afraid to try something new. i know you look at an almost finished model and say “i could try this but i put all this timr and i don’t want to screw it up.” that is why God made inexpensive models or, in my case today, allowed mistakes happen so i could try a new technique.
Ditto the above remarks about building how you want!
I started off building everything factory fresh, didn’t even know weathering existed.
Over time as parts would fall off, get broken, get lost and my repair attempts made the model looking ever worse I discovered I could cover the defect with some type of battle damage, weathering etc.
Welcome aboard Glue Man. As the others have said, finish them as you like. I like to weather mine, but that’s mainly because I build dio’s. So having a nice clean factory fresh plane on a dusty or muddy airfield on the Eastern Front might not look right.
And CMK mentioned that he builds without weathering. But his builds are still great and always a pleasure to see, and that’s just one example.
Aw, shucks! [:$] Thanks, Bish.