AFV Road Wheels

[SJL]

I'm having terrible time painting the rubber on tank road wheels without it
getting on the rim. I've use paint on a fine pointed brush and I've even
tried using sharpie permanent markers. No matter how careful I am it never
fails that at least the tops of the rims get covered in paint or ink.

What's the trick to doing this? I know there are masks by Eduard and others
but that's not the route just isn't feasible. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Scott

[Greg Heilers]

SJL wrote:

No real trick. Usually, any overspray, or "slop", will be hidden; by the
succeeding washing and drybrushing stages.

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[Ron]

I stick the wheels on a round toothpick and use a fine brush with india
ink for the rubber part, works so far.

[PaPaPeng]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:10:57 -0500, Ron <rwsm...@rcn.com> wrote:

>I stick the wheels on a round toothpick and use a fine brush with india
>ink for the rubber part, works so far.

The above works. Plus

Paint a thin black separation line on the rubber next to the wheel hub
first. This can be thinned black paint so that capillary action will
cause the thinned paint to flow to give you a sharp separation from
the hub without too much effort and with minimal over painting.

Then paint the wheel hub. Touch up the black separation line.

Since the crisp separation line is already done it is very easy to
finish painting black on the rest of the wheel.

Use artists tube acrylic black for painting the rubber. It dries into
a thick semi-gloss black coat that looks very much like real rubber,
a texture hobby paints cannot simulate.

[Francis X. Kranick, Jr.]

For the first time in a while, I was able to use a draftsman's circle
template. I'm finishing-up a Trumpeter Abrams and did the following:
Paint the build wheels the color of the rubber (dark grey is what I
generally use). Don't worry about overspray onto the steel rims.
After they're dry, find the hole on the circle template that best fits
the wheel. Tape off the surrounding holes so you don't get your hands
painted. Insert the wheel in the hole and shoot it the color of the
tank's camouflage. The Trumpeter's wheels fit nicely in one of the
holes - the reason it's been a while for me to use this technique. I
usually find too much slop beteween the template and the wheel, allowing
paint to get on the rubber areas.
The other way I perform this task is to chuck the wheel onto my
flex-shaft tool and rotate it at slow speeds and apply paint with a
fully loaded paintbrush. Aside from getting the wheels chucked and
spinning evenly, it's a quick job.

Frank Kranick

[WmB]

"PaPaPeng" <papa...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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When you guys say "black", do you mean straight out of the bottle black or
dark grey "scaled black"? Except for car bodies, I haven't painted much of
anything straight black in ages.

WmB

[PaPaPeng]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:54:55 GMT, " WmB" <HELLi...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>When you guys say "black", do you mean straight out of the bottle black or
>dark grey "scaled black"? Except for car bodies, I haven't painted much of
>anything straight black in ages.

Straight out of the bottle or tube. If you are into making things
look realistic use artists tube acrylics to drybrush white over the
tires. Then use the "earth colors" ochre, burnt sienna and so on to
dry brush weather the vehicle including the tires. Use artists tube
acrylics for dry brushing. You'll find it easy to use, very effective
and look really goood .

[Ron]

WmB wrote:

> When you guys say "black", do you mean straight out of the bottle black or
> dark grey "scaled black"? Except for car bodies, I haven't painted much of
> anything straight black in ages.

There isn't a whole hell of a lot you can do to lighten india ink, so
yes black. Normal AFV weathering will tone it down enough.

[SJL]

Thanks for all of the input. I tried several of the suggestions and they
worked better than what I'd done in the past.

Thanks!

Scott

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