The burning desire to get the Chieftain on its wheels so it looks more like a tank and less like a random collection of resin, styrene and scrap wire forced me to adress painting the tracks and wheels.

I like to have a cunning plan before starting to paint so I worked out that I would paint the wheels in several steps.

The wheels are in two pieces, an inner and an outer, and it was obviously desirable to paint these halves before assembly.

I decided to paint the mating face of the wheels first. The mating face would then be the inner. The outer half has an inner and an outer, but I soon realised that the inner half inner is outside, so the outer is inside the assembled wheel, and is therefore an inner.

This had a potential to become complicated. After all, if I was painting the inners, but one inner was an outer, then, when I came to paint the outers one would already be done.

Even worse, as the inner of the inner was an outer, then the outer of the inner would really be an inner, so how would I know if I had done it or not?

I then referred to Tamiyas instruction sheet to see if they had recognised this problem but they surprisingly make no mention of it.

Maybe I will just leave them unpainted.

Regards Dave

Potential? With all this talk of innies and outies, I don't know if we're talking belly buttons or German performance cars! #:-)




Dave, just paint the rubber parts dark gray before assembling them. Use a circle template to cover this and paint the rims the body/camo color. Assemble and attach to the tank.

Paint all inner surfaces to show wear or rust,paint all outer surfaces to main color.After assembly,if any inners became outers,you could repaint what ever faces in or out.
MY HEAD JUST EXPLODED!!!! #:-) (++)

Dave - I just edited your MkIII review. I'd had some trouble linking to your images at MSN though. Hopefully the links work properly...

Gunnie

Thanks Gunnie. You had trouble? I spent hours a few weeks ago trying to get the pics posted in the Rivet Review. Jim came to my aid and showed me how easy it is but I still could not get it sussed. I am a iMac user which does not help 'cos most of Jims instructions involved left and right clicking which is anathema to us single button types.

Could it be that there are people who are taking my wheel painting post seriously?

Regards Dave

Ayoooo HEADACHE!!!
Dave, just paint the outer rim/rubber part matt black. Then after painting the rim with your base colour, you can weather your wheel by wash and drybrushing. Usually I use oil wash , for drybrushing I use the lighter base colour. Sometimes I use metal colour for drybrushing follows by rust colour . Depending on your diorama , you may add dust using pastel chalk.
Don't be confused. Be happy and have fun

hhmmmmmmmm got me muddeled on this one what I do is spray the wheel the colour of the tyre this also acts as primer/preshade colour then once paint is dry I take a circle template which can be purchased from any good stationary supplier/art shop match the size
over the rim and spray away works every time I've got 2 templates with different sizes so can always find 1 to suit
:-)