Personally, I don’t preshade, either. I just don’t agree with your blanket statement that either technique is unrealistic. It really depends on the subject and the modeler.
Exactly.
Let’s see if the “403 Error” bug strikes again on this reply attempt.
I don’t know how prevelant dot filtering is on aircraft builds, but on armor builds, it is one of the current “go to” weathering techniques along with chipping. And it is WAY overdone in most cases by both the masters and the copycats. It looks like they are making their builds out to be old outdoor museum pieces that have been ignored for years, or range target hulks. Real operational military vehicles rarely end up in such condition. At least not in standing regular armies. But we are just going over the same ground again, and again regarding this subject on FSM for years.
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I do some modified and limited dot filters on some aircraft, specially the later Tomcat schemes that got extra filthy.
Carrier aircraft are a different breed for weathering. When they are not flying, or in the hangar deck for major maintenance, they are on the flight deck out in the sun and sea salt spray. Often in climates and weather conditions that are less than gentle. Now NATO and Warsaw Pact aircraft on the other hand could often spend a good deal of their life span out of the weather in a hardened shelter away from the ravages of nature.