Well guys, many of you already know that after presenting my TUSK, I am finishing the TUSKII, today I started chipping, today I had a bad day and I honestly think it went wrong. I wanted your honest opinions, it can be repainted and chipped, please be honest, I want to improve.
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Looks like you scrubbed too hard and removed too much paint.
Personally, chipping modern US equipment is overkill to me, as they usually don’t chip that much.
An M1A2 SEP w/TUSK II in Iraq. It has almost no chipping.
Additionally, I have trimmed your titles down a bit. They don’t need to be that long as they just get really unnecessarily wordy.
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While you have the technique down for chipping, if the intent was to match 1:1 unless you have photo showing that much chipping on tusk and a US Army Abrams it is too much. Abrams didn’t have that much chipping. There was 4 USMC M1A1’s that did have a good amount of chipping caused from not applying a preventative and doing ship to shore landings outside of that CARC paint is tough and you don’t have much wear for either USMC or Army Abrams tanks.
If the intent was not 1:1, than rock on. 
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Thanks guys, tomorrow it will be time to paint the Abrams again, a slightly tedious day awaits me, but mistakes must be paid for,and I apologize for the titles, next time I will make them shorter
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I agree with what was said above, we have to pay for our mistakes, thank you both very much for your comments
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Since you are asking,
keep in mind that some parts of the vehicle might be made from different materials. So there might be aluminum parts that do not rust or other types of steel that have different color etc. Some parts could be made from synthetic materials too.
Your chipping technique is excellent but you get too excited when doing it and represent too much chipped paint.
Another way you can improve your chipping is by adding a layer of faded base color to it, around the bear metal.
You seem to have pretty good knowledge of the techniques, try thinking what you want to do on your vehicle and which technique to use. Do not get over excited with one effect, you might overdo it.
Other things you might want to figure out for your models is where there are metals parts rubbing against each other, e.g. the track guide teeth and the sprocket wheel guide teeth, where there is rubber padding on the track, where are your exhausts, where there could be streaks and stains from fuel or water etc.
Photo example of some basic chipping with layers, notice the faded base color combined with the bare metal color.
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I don’t think you have to pay. It’s a hobby and a learning opportunity. You can move forward and work on other techniques and save the less chipping for another project. That is the good thing about the hobby, it’s the modelers choice on what they want to do.
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I disagree because you can always correct them, especially those made on the weathering stage. It will take you more time but patience is rewarding most of the times.
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Yeah. You got a little too overenthusiastic. But don’t feel bad. You don’t have to “pay”. This is a hobby. Do-overs are always allowed. Give yourself a break. I’ve screwed up something in the weathering stages before where I had to strip the tank back to bare plastic and start from scratch all over again, and that’s happened to me numerous times.Is it a big deal? Well, yeah, but you got to go with the flow. It’s all part of the hobby. Great advice above, by the way.
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Thank you very much, I will take these instructions to do it well, thank you very much
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I have left the Abrams aside, I have repainted it and it looks terrible, it is also worth saying that I was using the AK third generation CARC TAN, the tone of the paint is excellent, but the paint itself is horrible, they are cumbersome paints
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It was a way of speaking, but I have learned, I have left Abrams aside to return after other projects
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I got too excited about this Abrams 
, as the guys say, and thank you all very much for your honest answers, the Abrams remains for the moment in the “disaster drawer”, and I repeat again, at least for me the third generation AKs are paintings horrible, I have found the ATOM paints that CARC also has so, I understand that they are excellent paints
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I have read nothing but excellent reviews of ATOM paints from experienced modelers on several forums. They airbrush and brush paint exceptionally well. They are really outstanding paints.
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I have just ordered a pair with its specific diluent, I was thinking about it and I think I will start the abrams v3 of RFM, but now I will ask the relevant questions in the thread I opened about it
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