Very nice work Terry!
Question; Is it supposed to be a setting museum piece, or one that has just been parked after it was run across the battlefield?
Method to my madness and has to do with the tracks. I will come up at contest I am sure.
If you are refering to the amount of "mud" present on the model. Mud is not always present even on the battlefield. In fact crews spend a great deal of time removing the mud from their tanks. The notion that tanks are always covered with a thick coating of mud is not really accurate. If I were depicting the tank on the battlefield then that sort of weathering might be appropriate. I know there is a popular notion out there that armor should be heavily weathered (epecially amoung modelers in Europe), but I don't acribe to that method unless the "scene" demands it. I use more subdued weathering because I want the viewer to see the model not the "mud". As far as competitions go I have rarely seen the amount of weathering ever come up in fact when we see a lot of over weathering the assumption is there is must be a mistake in there somewhere. You know like putting a tarp over a canopy. LOL There are all levels of weathering from the museum all the way to stuck in the mud. Like my wife says "It was new once wasn't it?"
Thanks B)
