I think is one of the reasons I admire guys like Bill Geary, Norman Veber and the late Augie Hiscano among others, they never went overboard on the details at the same time maintaining everything down to scale. There are a lot of things on a model that are just impossible to maintain to scale. One reason I don't like to take pictures under the sun when using metallic colors on my models is exactly that, no matter what paint you use, the metallics will never be to scale on these models.