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Rubber wheel/tire question.
Posted by Kentucky Colonel on Sunday, July 22, 2012 1:10 PM

My question is how do you fad rubber tires, rubber tank wheels and rubber tracks? I'm almost finished and I'm stuck on this and can't move until I can get this right.

I'm building a tank that has been setting in the same place for years out in the sun but I'm having trouble "white" sheen from years in the sun on the rubber. I don't ever know if white it the right word for it.  It has rubber wheels and rubber pads on the track that I'm trying to get right.

There is a tractor on a farm not far from here and it's been setting out in the same place for years and the rubber tires look just like I'm trying to make. You can tell they are rubber but they have a kind of "light" sheen over the surface of them from all the time in the sun.

I have Valliejo Dark Rubber and Light Rubber if that helps. i have thought about trying to dry brush across the rubber with Light Rubber but it doesn't seem to look right.

Does anybody have any ideas? I have Tamiya paints, MM paints, Vallejo paints and two different air brishes. I ever have Rushall and their dead flat but I'm not sure if it will work.  i'm not sure if MM Acryl clear fklat will work since I want light color to fad with.

Thanks for any help.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, July 22, 2012 5:32 PM

You have to watch many of the tires that look like rubber.  They may be vinyl which doesn't work with enamel.  I wish they would NOT use vinyl for tires!

If the tires are epoxy, styrene, or some other non-vinyl material, you can use some weathered rubber colors, or mix some white or brown with a black.  If the tires ARE vinyl, I dust them with talcum powder

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    June 2012
Posted by Compressorman on Monday, July 23, 2012 7:28 PM

I would try using different gray colors until I got the color that I was after rather than using premixed colors. And then maybe a matte clearcoat over the top.

hth,

Chris

  • Member since
    October 2009
Posted by Kentucky Colonel on Monday, July 23, 2012 9:10 PM

Thanks guys.

This is what I'm trying to do. See the "light" sheen over the rubber wheels and rubber oads on the track?

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  • Member since
    June 2012
Posted by Compressorman on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:40 AM

If it was me I would try the method that I suggested and then airbrush an infinitely fine coat of really light gray over the areas that you want faded.

Chris

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