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    December 2017
Painting track links
Posted by KyleBragger on Sunday, March 4, 2018 11:41 AM

New to armor (usually build a/c kits) and wondering if anyone has a preferred way of painting plastic track links during the build, specifically around sequencing. 

I feel like I'm maybe overcomplicating things but I've been building the lower chassis, wheels, etc., then priming and painting (wheels, etc.), attaching painted tracks (I'm generally talking about the plastic kind that's built up in sections, not the nicer single piece rubber type), then masking the whole lower section off.

Is there a simpler way? Or is this kind of it? Just feels odd to have to paint the finish in effectively two different phases.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Sunday, March 4, 2018 12:03 PM

Everyone has there own way of doing things. I don't add the tracks or wheels until later in the build, after the painting and most of the weathering it done. I paint and weather the wheels off the kit. The way you are doing it, you are painting the vehicle twice, first lower hull then upper hull.

Personaly, i prefer single piece tracks and wil replace those rubber band tracks when they come with a kit. But some people prefer the simplicity of them.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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