Weathering Vinyl Tank Tracks

Tamiya offers vinyl tracks for tamiya kits pz kpfw v panther ausf d pz kpfw v panther the king tiger.

Weathering vinyl tank tracks.

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. Today i d like to show you some more scraps from my zsu 57 2 project. 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. Tracks add weight and heaviness to appearance of tank models and therefore it is very important to have realistic look of tracks on your models.

Just paint your tracks dark brown and jump directly to the step 3. If you re interested in the full sbs of my zsu 57 2 project. M60 and m48 t142 m1a1 m1a2 abrams t 158 m3 stuart early t 16 m5 light tank m8 howitzer motor carriage m4 sherman t51 and some others. I recommend picking these details out paint the track like it was brand new before weathering it.

Hey everyone here is my simply technique to weather your tracks in any scale rc or static. 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. 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. We stock all the major manufacturers and smaller ones as well.

With these techniques the attention to detail still shows. 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. Afv club has workable tracks for several models the u s. This can be used on plastic and metal tracks although with metal.

In this tutorial i work with metal tracks. Weathering your scale model. 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. This time it will be a guide on how to paint and weather urban warfare style tracks.

Model of tanks are cool and all tanks have tracks. Having decided to dispense with a primer coat the first stage is to airbrush the tracks with a base coat. There s nothing quite like a shiny newly completed scale model.