RE: New Mato Metal Stug Ready for production
Im a bit wary of this topic as it can quickly derail to a T***** Vs. H*** L*** type affair but:
1. Metal , at least steel sheet, must surely provide more realistic damage? There are an awful lot of very strange looking bent fenders on an awful lot Tigers.
2. Metal at least has a texture that is metallic. Not suitable for all tanks obviously but the best thing for replicating the texture of sheet metal must be...sheet metal.
3. Less bending of things gun barrels as you go over bumps.
4. Plastic just looks too perfect most of the time. Lot of tanks out there with great paint jobs but the angles and edges are often way too sharp and the surfaces way too flat/perfect.
5. Plastic looks "warm", metal looks "cold".
6. It gets rid of glue.......
I dont actually see what one loses in metal as opposed to plastic. Plastic is obviously the easier and cheaper option but if you are willing to spend weeks attaching plastic rivets and individual grains of dust to where you want them and buying expensive metal accessories like shovels and cables and so on.......Im not sure Isee the logic at all.
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