This is a question I pose to you, the community. In my honest opinion, they are.
For example, this is a photo (not mine, nabbed off a google images search) of an Enviro 400:
As you can hopefully tell. It is quite dirty. Now, this is quite an extreme example, most buses won't be quite THAT dirty but it helps convey my point. Buses aren't pristine. Yeah, they might be just after a wash, but even these are dirtied quickly.
Now I get that we have dirt maps, and they do look ok. But they don't represent the kind of dust and exhaust soot and other guff that gets picked up by buses in service. It would greatly improve the look of repaints if they had a touch of grime around the likely areas (near fuel caps, around the wheel arches, on the back, around exhausts etc).
Or maybe, have a pristine and dirtied version of the buses.
I don't know, I'm just trying to incite a discussion here, to be honest. Just give me your opinions (and maybe, if you make skins, tell me why I'm woefully incorrect).
For example, this is a photo (not mine, nabbed off a google images search) of an Enviro 400:
As you can hopefully tell. It is quite dirty. Now, this is quite an extreme example, most buses won't be quite THAT dirty but it helps convey my point. Buses aren't pristine. Yeah, they might be just after a wash, but even these are dirtied quickly.
Now I get that we have dirt maps, and they do look ok. But they don't represent the kind of dust and exhaust soot and other guff that gets picked up by buses in service. It would greatly improve the look of repaints if they had a touch of grime around the likely areas (near fuel caps, around the wheel arches, on the back, around exhausts etc).
Or maybe, have a pristine and dirtied version of the buses.
I don't know, I'm just trying to incite a discussion here, to be honest. Just give me your opinions (and maybe, if you make skins, tell me why I'm woefully incorrect).