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| Subject: | Re: Inner surface color of schurtzen? |  |
| Date: | Feb 12, 2006 |
| From: | Howard Freeman | |
If you are talking exclusively German tanks then the tracks were all metal.If left, steel darkens and dulls to a very even dark brown shade, the old Humbrol track colour was a good match for this if you know the shade. After a few hundred yards on tarmac roads the track is polished by the road wheels and can get pretty bright where the rubber road wheels polish the inside face. The road side cleats go metalic but never seem to be as bright - probably they get very pitted.
Now if that vehicle is left, the brightness fades, with local spots of red-orange rust, before it all goes brown again.
Russian tanks of WWII had a lot of Manganese in the steel for the tracks, so they were a much lighter milk chocolate brown shade 'at rest' and - I guess much less shiny when being used as the steel was a lower index.
I've not come across any tanks with primered tracks outside museums - but it's possible - If you have proof I'd like to know please :-)
I've seen tanks, mostly Russian ones on parade with the tracks painted the same green as the rest of the chassis. Some American tanks look as if the tracks were painted with bitumen rubber - they seem to be the same reflectance as the rubber on the track blocks.
Of course, after a few miles off road, it's anyones guess!
This picture of Preston Issacs' T-34 has only run about two miles across the field next to his museum. |
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