... Unlikely too, as real aircraft manufacturers and users always tried to have smallest possible, if no ditches to obtain the best aerodynamical performances.
Panel lines on a model kits, like PE railings, deck planking and side hull plating are a convention manufacturers offer to modelers to enhance their builds, no matter if they're realistic or to scale.
Commercially, this works as such products get ever increasing good opinions and sales.
I guess today a range of 1:700 aircraft without panel lines wouldn't sell as much as a panelled one.
Manufacturers of panel liner inks are happy, too.
Opinion depends on how much "rivet counter" you are.
I can live with small or moderate panel lines, but I never enhance them with panel liners as their look in real life is due to light angle and not dark dirt, so it may change according to the angle of lighting.
In the model building world they're many different "schools". Some never use panel liners, some even fill up ditches, some add liters of panel liners. A world in its diversity.
The same could be said about weathering, but that's another story.
Most important is: you're satisfied with what you've done. The rest is a matter of taste.
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