I'm in the early process of building a Bradly AFV. At this point I need to assy the road wheels
and continue the build process, But I don't know if I should Paint the Road wheels black first and then assy, or build the entire undercarriage and paint the black (rubber) road wheels when the whole assy. has been complete, then moving on to the weathering process.
So many Models so little time

I paint my roadwheels black before assembling them and putting them on the kit. I never had any luck trying to paint the front face of the inside roadwheel when they were glued together and on the model.

Shaun

best thing to do is paint the wheels and rubber black then take a circle template and fit it to the correct wheel size and spray the colour you want for the rims as you've used a dark paint by doing this lightly you can use the balck as a pre-shade do this both sides of the wheels allow to dry and make them up per the instructions then you can either weather the hull sperate or attach and weather together

If you plan on a desert vehicle, paint the road wheels first. Assemble everything except the side armors. Now paint the body and the side armor with the color you wanted. After all that, combine the model. There you go!

I paint the road wheels off the kit. I try to add them last if possible. If I have to add them earlier, I still paint them seperately, then do whatever I have to do to keep them from being painted accidently.
capnjock

I have not gotten that far yet, but what I have seen IIRC on missing-lynx, they had a group build, mainly for starters of a Tiger I.

The advice put forth there was to paint the wheels actually while on the sprue, then cut them off and IIRC handpaint the rubber. He painted the undercarriage, fully assembled except for the weels first, and then added the wheels and tracks... when painting the whole vehicle, he simply masked off the whole track and wheel assembly, and painted the vehicle...

This is what I remember from the article...

I try to hold off on installing the roadwheels & track as long as possible (very last thing if I can get away with it). I paint the roadwheels before I ever try to assemble/install them. It is way too much trouble to paint them once they have been installed.

I've always found it best to paint wheels on tanks, or anything else before glueing them. It makes them it esier because when you them a wash in whatever color is needed, the paint doesnt pool on the bottom of the wheel. it might be best to leave them on the sprues while painting them, I've found out wheels arent the easiest thing to hold with fingers and paint at the same time. This all is just my opinion.

IMHO I would paint the road wheel the color you wish to do the model in. Then I use a black sharpie marker and color the rubber part of the wheels. Once the wheels are on the kit I weather them.

...of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.