A question for IPACS Artist/Artist producing your airliners. Have you considered making the rivet and lining detail a bit more visible on your Airliners?
On most of them it is very subtle and hardly ever shows up (on my machine at least). Observing the thread on your upcoming A350 (Very much looking forward to that)... it is evident that you go to a great deal of effort to put the details there in the textures. Why not make them stand out a bit more? I'm not suggesting they be as prominent as the ones on the Corsair (although personally I don't hate that)...
I'm assuming the Rivet and lining detail is a greyscale layer in layered PSD or other image file. The way your textures are set up in Aerofly allows enormous flexibility in this Regard. When I was doing the spitfire I experimented with quite a few ways of doing this. In the end I found the best way to have them show up without looking too heavy handed was to first of all, blend the greyscale rivet and lining with a multiply factor over the ambient texture (subtly of course) then to do the same on the specular and reflection textures (again very subtly). The Result I've illustrated below. Hope you don't mind me raising this suggestion but I realize you may not agree or there may be some very good technical reason why you have done it as is.
Matt
. When you make these models you do research, study photos and drawings and then do your best to render what is seen in the real world. This is correct as far as I can see for a MK1a spit with the flat sided hood. When the hood design was changed to bulge at the sides, the top curved side profile was less pronounced as a result of the manufacturing process (I read somewhere). Anyway I like it as is so wont be changing