@sacboi so its a bit tricky at times, but in involved using weighted normals modifier in blender. Also you can use face normal strength, so where there is a bevel, get rid of the hard edges and set the bevel face strength to weak, the bigger faces to strong. I will dig out the tutorial on you tube, but its a pretty cool…
look forward to seeing the Tiger revamp,since you are a proper hard surface modeller :) the good thing with uv mapping the bevels is that blender does a reasonable job of it and IMHO Eevee does a great job with car/shiny shaders . There are plenty of procedural approaches for the camo pattern , using 'object 'rather than…