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Is it just me or is preshading overdone?

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  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Pineapple Country, Queensland, Australia
Posted by Wirraway on Saturday, June 17, 2017 8:39 AM
This discussion (argument ?) has been around for a while. Many a person has posted about how panel lines are routinely overdone in models they see, which in real life would equate to a 1" gap between panels. Its really in the eye of the beholder. Navy birds get dirtier than land based aircraft, but then again, I've never worked on a carrier either, so what do I know. Everyone's modelling styles are different, what looks overdone to someone might look just right to the person building it. I can always appreciate the extra work someone puts in to pre-shading, even if it is a trifle overdone.

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    June 2016
  • From: Upstate South Carolina
Is it just me or is preshading overdone?
Posted by Murphy's Law on Saturday, June 17, 2017 7:45 AM

First off I don't intend to offend anyone who uses this technique. With that being said I just don't get the whole preshading fad that so many use nowadays. I can understand if that's just how you like it to look and I admit it gives it an artistic pop. Beyond that I find it very unrealistic. The real things didn't have preshading around the panel lines so why i'm the world would you apply it on a scaled down version? The underbellies on some of these scale models is so overdone. To me giving the center of the panels a slightly lighter than base color to represent glare and sun fade looks so much better than seeing dark lines running along all the panels. That's just my two cents. 

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