Weathering Vinyl Tank Tracks

From racing cars and motorbikes to trains planes and cinema icons there s a real sense of achievement when it s all put together but while some models look amazing with a clean coat of paint others benefit greatly from a more aged authentic look.

Weathering vinyl tank tracks.

Hey everyone here is my simply technique to weather your tracks in any scale rc or static. There s nothing quite like a shiny newly completed scale model. The tracks will often be covered by so many other coats of paint and then heavily weathered that a primer does not seem to give any advantage. In this tutorial i work with metal tracks.

This time it will be a guide on how to paint and weather urban warfare style tracks. We stock all the major manufacturers and smaller ones as well. I recommend picking these details out paint the track like it was brand new before weathering it. Having decided to dispense with a primer coat the first stage is to airbrush the tracks with a base coat.

Hi everyone due to the great response we received from our build of the tamiya panther tank tracks i wasn t completely happy with the video quality and dec. Painting this polyvinyl run was more involved than the t 55a above because of the sophisticated integration of rubber shoes with the steel track sections. Weathering your scale model. Here i would like to share my recipe for robust and easy way to make nice looking tracks on a tank or another tracked vehicle tractor half track etc.

I usually paint and weather my tracks off the tank and add them last but before antenas and easily breakable stuff i don t have too much experience with rubber bands except for newer tamiya and dragon ds they paint and weather normally i have not done a kit with the older vinyl tracks. Just paint your tracks dark brown and jump directly to the step 3. Today i d like to show you some more scraps from my zsu 57 2 project. This can be used on plastic and metal tracks although with metal.

If you re interested in the full sbs of my zsu 57 2 project. Model of tanks are cool and all tanks have tracks. If you have plastic or vinyl ones the sbs will still work for you. With these techniques the attention to detail still shows.

We also stock all the decals resin accessories and photo etch parts from companies like archer afv club eduard aires tamiya trumpeter quickboost and more. Most tank tracks start out a dark dull metal colour. Tamiya offers vinyl tracks for tamiya kits pz kpfw v panther ausf d pz kpfw v panther the king tiger.