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| Subject: | Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? |  |
| Date: | Dec 29, 2000 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Rob Plas wrote:
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> Mike,
> I have done such a job just last week, on my ARV MK 1 conversion:
> I first sprayed the tracks with Humbrol Track color, which is an od reddish
> brown.
> Next I applied a heavy wash with sepia oils and after that a lighter one
> with a light grey wash.
> Next I drybrushed the tracks with a dark metal, and ended with some light
> silver on the bars and teeth.
> After this dried I placed the tracks on the Sherman and oversprayed the
> whole lower hull with some light earth.
> I like the result, mayby you will to.
With apologies to Rob (this is also the method I used to use) but
looking at photos of Ram and Sherman tanks, in England, Holland and in
Canada, has convinced me that the basic colour of steel tracks should
almost never be the rusty, trusty "Track Colour". On dry, or even mostly
dry terrain, the constant movement of soil and dirt across the face of
these tracks ensured that they were almost completely a burnished steel
colour with the only brown being the dirt caught in the cleats and the
only rust to be found on the outside edges of the end connectors where
nothing usually contacts the tracks. Any time where rust would be
visible, the ground was usually wet enough to ensure the tracks were
caked with mud and muck. If it was dry enough that the tracks weren't
caked with mud then the soil burnished off the rust again. This
burnishing went all the way into the deepest crevasses of the cleated
face of the track. On sandy soil the track face was a bright steel
colour. The only time you see rust on dirt free tracks is when the
vehicle has been standing still for a while, say over a couple of
nights. If the unit is resting and refitting, the tracks would skim over
with rust pretty quickly, but this would disappear even quicker when the
vehicle was on the move again.
I will now put on my helmet, duck into my slit trench and await the
return fire....
--
Paul Roberts
Scale Tech Distributing
Contract Model Makers
tankmodeler@home.com
http://www.tamcotec.com/proberts/ |
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 | T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Mike Norris - Dec 28, 2000 |
| . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Rob Plas - Dec 28, 2000 |
| . . . . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Paul Roberts - Dec 29, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Kim Voss - Dec 29, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Rob Plas - Dec 29, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Christophe Jacquemont - Dec 29, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Paul Roberts - Dec 30, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scale effect? - Lynn Kessler - Dec 30, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Paul Roberts - Dec 31, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Lynn Kessler - Dec 31, 2000 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Rob Plas - Jan 1, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Robert A .Clifton,R.A. - Jan 1, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Mike & Andrea Canaday - Jan 1, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Robert A .Clifton,R.A. - Jan 1, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Lynn Kessler - Jan 2, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Mike & Andrea Canaday - Jan 2, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Sean Dailey - Jan 2, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Federico Kereki - Jan 2, 2001 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Scale effect? - Paul Roberts - Jan 1, 2001 |
| . . . Re: T49 Steel Block Tracks - An accurate weathering technique? - Mike & Janet Roy - Dec 30, 2000 |
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