After 10 years of building, living with mommy and daddy, and finishing a Bachelor degree, revenues are low storage space is limited.

Consequently I tend to rebuild many models. The particular subject of this blog happens to be a Jagdpanther which is undergoing its 3d paint scheme in 5 years.

Unfortunatly, when you strip down models for repaint, the roadwheels are already glued, which makes it particularily difficult to paint germans roadwheels.
First Paint scheme:


Second Paint Scheme:

FINALY:

The exhaust so far...

How I paint Roadwheels when i rebuild models
Use an old brush to apply the maskol around the interior of the road wheel

Once the Maskol is dry, it should look like this:

Now Paint the roadwheels using acrylics and a good brush:

The result should look like this:

Now use tweezers to peel off the maskol once the paint is dry. It should then look like this:

Afterwards, do the necessary touch ups ising a fine brush.


VOILA! thats how I painted the roadwheels without having to take them off and worry about making a mess...

Sorry for the loisy pictures. 99$ hp camera can't work miracles!

Frank

Very Cool, and thanks for sharing this. milvehfan

The raised rim is part of the metal wheel, not the rubber tire. You could dry brush it with the cammo color, I suppose.

Dumb question time:

I find it very hard getting an accurate line with masking fluid, and it always just seems to turn into a blob on the brush rather than going where I want it to.

Do you thin it down to avoid this? With water?

I prefer to use a fine brush, and just get to painting without any masking. Seems like a bit of touch-up would be necessary either way, so in my laziness, I just skip a step.