Raising an old issue, again, and will continue to do so

[Madfish]

Originally Posted by Von Crapenhauser

Fractory fresh in reality never existed as all planes were flown to bases.
Any real pilot will tell you after one flight only,the leading edges of most planes of aircraft get sandblasted buy air,moisture and other particles.
Wear and tear will be small at 1st but factory fress dosnt last long in reality.
Not to mention dead flies and suchlike.
Engienes run with rich mixtures at low altitudes giving rise to black soot exhaust marks,grey soot if at high atitude as mixture weakens also.
No one worrid about exhaust emissions in 1940.
However pics look awsome detail,except for no pilot in the office.

So what? Even if the colors back in the days weren't as high tech as these days - it takes MUCH more than just one flight to get a sandblasted look like we currently have. More like half a year.

This is a crashed p40 after 70 years. It has seen a lot of dust during service, unlike brit and euro stuff. Also keep in mind that it was damaged even before crashing.

http://z6mag.com/featured/world-war-...pt-169135.html

The weathering slider should be fully controllable. And the metal weathering needs to set in way behind the normal weathering like exhaust residue, bleaching and whatever.
There are nice skin options - and imagine "creative" skins for formation flying, air racing etc. - why would there be any weathering on them?

It's not like 99% of all planes and pilots survived hundreds of missions over africa just to get sandblasted and then take part in the BoB anyways