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  • Member since
    February 2006
  • From: Boston
AMT/ERTL VINYL TIRES
Posted by Wilbur Wright on Friday, December 19, 2008 12:06 PM

Hi Folks on the car and truck forum.  I don't normally build trucks however may come into a couple of amt/ertl trucks that have vinyl tires. I've never seen these. Are they anything like the Tamiya rubber tires for their formula 1 cars, which seem to be real rubber.

could anyone describe them and the degree of difficulty working with them getting them "Right" 

or are they really bad? 

 

many thanks 

 

 

  • Member since
    September 2015
  • From: The Redwood Empire
Posted by Aaronw on Friday, December 19, 2008 2:54 PM

The biggest problem with the vinyl tires on big rigs is they are hollow and can look flat since the sidewalls don't bulge out enough. I don't find this on pickups and cars as the tires are usually more solid.

There have been complaints that they will react to the plastic wheels as well (disolve the plastic), although I have not personally seen that happen. I have been told that was actually only a problem for a certain period of kits and the formula was changed but again I can't say one way or the other with any certainty. The tires also tend to be shiny, not bad for a truck with freshly armor-alled tires but it doesn't look right for regular tires. Easy enough to fix with simple weathering techniques, I find a wash of flat paint works fairly well. 

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Monday, January 5, 2009 12:29 PM

This is how my mid-90s vintage AMT tigercat model came out of the box. There was a big discussion about this problem in the helicopter forum (rubber/vinyl machine gun belts..I fixed many a rotten rotor from the belts laying on them).

I throw the rubber away from all the kits that I can. no detroyed plastic on any of my Tamiya 1/12 motorcyles......

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b244/ThePlasticFanatic/Scale%20Modeling%20Album/vinyltiremelted.jpg

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