Hola,
I know its been a long time since this post was first started, but I just got some pictures in and I took some of how I paint tires.
First I mix black with a flesh color, to a suitable faded black. Paint the whole tire in this, then paint the rim. Now get your pastels out and mix some earth tones and add a generous amount of thinner to this. Mix it good and smear all over the tire and set to dry.

Here are the results, on the left is the pastel wash smeared all over, and to the right is a finished tire, just use your fingers and wipe it off until you are satesfied, then spray a coat of dull coat over this to seal it!

Hola again,

I just copied the post that I made long time ago under a different tire painting thread
Hope it helps

Thank you all for your tips and help.

Love the pics - they really show what I want to achieve.

Kind regards
Digger

I´ll double what Anders said! Pastels work great and easilly to weather tires.
Once again, I feel like you can come up with very good results even without reference material, just use common sense. Here´s an example of rubber tires weathered with only neutral grey, sand and dark brown coloured pastels, mixed with water. I didn´t want to show too much mud and dirt chunks, but you can tell from the picture how the weather has been in the last a couple of days.



:-)

Toni

Yes, it was snowing... like in the most of your dioramas.. Just kidding, man. Love those tyres.

As I've said there was a talk about this topic and you can find it here: Tyres

Mario M.

You...English Kniggiths! Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries!
No no no! I don´t mean the snow! I mean the beautiful, subtle, artistic dirt under it! The snow just fell down. Yesterday it was +5C, the road was muddy when they towed the gun in position! Any Finnish Artillery Sergeant could tell that!
And of course it´s snowing! It always snows around here! (Yea right. And the streets of Helsinki are crowded with polar bears.)

(:-) (:-) (:-) #:-)

Toni

BTW. Only three of my five finished dioramas include snow! lol

I know... it was hard to do snow in a 1941 North Africa diorama... #:-) (:-)

I'm kidding, your snow is the best looking snow I have seen so far. You do a great job with it and should be proud... Now, I'm waiting for a polar bear.

Mario M.