I would agree to some points, like time period cars had not such a shiny gloss, but on a model i see it different. It is more an interpretation of the builder/artist and i do it similar, a point where i leave the 1 on 1 way. Everyone has a different thinking of such point i guess, sure it is not realy matching, but i`ve seen builds on where it leaves a bad note, cause it reflects a bit your skill in doing such paint job, a not so shiny surface often comes from less skills, so if someone put a lot of work in details and mess by paintjob....it brings not the result you maybe like yourself.ferrarissimus wrote:Your 312 looks fantastic. I did both methods and I don't know what is the better one. But there were not those super polished cars in the aera of riveted cars. We take modern paint technology with base coats and 2K clear coats for our cars from the 50th to the 70th, but they used only one paint coat. The model cars look better with the deep shiny clear coat, but it is not realistic.
So in my opinion it is better first the rivets and later on the paint job.
Cheers ferrarissimus
Doing the rivets infront of painting has one bad point, the rivets will sink into the colour and clear and make them bigger as they are, and how to polish the surfaces between?? No matter how thin you try to paint, the rivets appears more round and bigger then doing them seperated. If taking care of shine of the clear, it is a must to prefend the rivets from sinking into colour!
My thinking in this point....