This is just something that I have been playing around with. I have a couple of the Italeri water tank trailers on the bench that I work on from time to time. The purpose of this thread is 2 fold.

#1 is a test to compare different brands of Olive Drab paint and to compare the effects the weathering will have on the overall color.

#2 is to show the custom wheels I had made. The italeri kits have the wrong wheels and just don’t look right. I commissioned Charlie Pritchett to master a new wheel and Celticwerks to cast the wheels.


Trailer #1

The first picture shows a base coat of Model Masters enamel # 1711 Olive Drab.



Notice the comparison between the old wheel and new wheel.





Trailer #2

This trailer will be painted with Tamiya XF 62

Waiting for paint to cure on my Sherman, I paid some attention to the water tank trailers today.

For trailer #1 and mixed some paint and painted the tires. Mix is 2 drops black to 1 drop dark tire.



I then base coated trailer #2 with Tamiya XF62.



This is my first go with Tamiya Olive Drab and found it way to dark for my taste. I added some XF60 to it and gave it another coat.

While I was busy today with decal work, I decided to mark the trailers as well. The kit decals were very old and frail, they fell apart immediately and was unable to use them. I dug into my spare decal stash and came up with some markings that would work.

I just realized that I made up the same registration number on both trailers, LOL Oh well, they wont be used together, only in this paint comparison.

Incase anyone is interested, The wheels are available at Celticwerks Casting Source.

http://www.celticwerks.net/products/

Hi John,

Nice work and the new wheels look good. The old wheels were always the complaint about the kit. The weathering looks very good and I don't have a problem with different shades of OD as not every batch was the same.

Nice job and the new wheels should be very useful.

Cheers

Al

Thanks for posting this ,i`m always curious when it comes to this sort of thing.Different brands for different shades - saves mucking about with mixing paints.

When it comes to O. D. it comes down to personal taste.
If you see the rare colored photo with two vehicle's you will see a shade or two differance.
Nice little side build.

Happy New Years
Dave