Do people dry brush the entire tank or just edges and high points?

would say it depends on the modeller!!

if I do it, then I drybrush the whole model.

refgards, werner

Hi!
The objective of the drybrush is to highlight the corner and high points on the vehicle, so you should to concentrate on these areas, but if you'd like just drybrush the whole thing, depends what kind of weathering are you trying to acquire.

Depends on the effect you're looking for. If you want a relatively clean, new vehicle with added dimension relief, stick to the edges and high points, such as rivet head, weld lines and hinges. If you want to portray a more used vehicle in the field, you'll want to dry brush everything with additional attention to the high points and edges.

AS you probably know, drybrushing works best after a dark wash and on darker kits (e.g., Israeli vehicles don't show this as well as early war German vehicles)

Just an A/C modeller's q:

You don't have all that much raised parts on an A/C. So what to do in that case then? D'B the whole thing instead?

BP.

There be little reason to drybrush an a/c, IMHO. I tend to build mine pretty clean, except modern naval a/c. To give more depth, you might want to hit some panels with a lighter version of the base or use different shades of metalizer and/or buff the metalizer to differnt sheens. A wash in panel lines along control surfaces helps. Again, IMHO, washes in all panel lines makes a model look unrealistic.

Hmmm.. Just exactly what I'd wondered .

Thanks AJLaFleche, that helped...

BP.