Today to my tracks. There are many meanings, how used tracks should look. From untreated till heavily rusted can you find at the models. I myself be not a friend of too much rust at tracks; as vehicles, which are always in motion also unreal. Dirt is real; the combat area and the weather conditions have their importance.
My Kingtiger was till August 1944 only at training area Ohrdruf in use. The combat area was more dry and sandy; that’s why are the tracks also more blank. But of course, in the edges of the tracks can dirt collected.
The black base colour of my tracks is already very worn; that’s why is the output base a good one.
For representation various colours of sand and loam in the tracks I use pigments of chalk colours; finished pigments are also a good base. The chalk was finely grounded and in different colourings mixed. To apply the pigments, I’d used line feed oil and turpentine.
With these mixtures was the track in different intensity’s brushed…
…and thereafter dried; this process I’ve supported with a hot air pistol. This looks then approximately so; here light brown areas; …
…here fewer brushed areas…
…and here a bit darker brushed areas. From all this mixtures shall later only a few traces to see.
Here once the different between treated and untreated areas at the track.
After drying were excess pigments with a soft wire brush or an old toothbrush removed; a few rounds in sandy terrain should bring the same success. Left are then the pigments only in the lower areas and edges of the track; the rest of the track is blank.
So many for that. My report is now in principle finished; some details I‘ve eventually forgotten, but in the final part I’ll show some pictures. Until then.
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This one should be in the Guinness Book of RC forum records! 
