Best way to paint tyres?

[Jake79]

Looking for a quick way to paint tyres, sure I saw guy use templates, then spray....

[ALPHA]

No quick solution for this one Jake....the blackwalls are a task even with templates ....I generally use a brush ...then spin the wheels....On HL stock plastic wheels I've found that if you don't get too much overspray on the black....you can rub the excess paint off with a paper towel...and a little nudging of a finger nail

Another way..is to reverse paint...and paint the black first...then to the center of the wheel afterwards if your airbrush is a good one...you should be able to free hand the center without much overspray on the black

Rubbers on metal wheels ...just paint the wheels...the rubbers can be cleaned with a solvent

All in all though...no matter which method...it still takes time

ALPHA

[billpe]

What are you painting exactly?

[Jake79]

Hi Alpha

Thanks for the tips/prob going to use a brush......I can't find the you tube vid of that chap...I just remember him doing it very quick on build filmed from start to finish in real time.....

Hi Billpe--a 1/35 Panther G

[ALPHA]

Hi Alpha

Thanks for the tips/prob going to use a brush......I can't find the you tube vid of that chap...I just remember him doing it very quick on build filmed from start to finish in real time.....

Hi Billpe--a 1/35 Panther G

I saw on EBAY... a guy listing templates for painting wheels...but they are actually pretty easy to make out of cardboard so I just passed that listing over but yeah.. I think brush is pretty fast.... basically take off the tracks and spin the wheel individually and hold the brush to the outside perimeter

No Problem on the suggestion Jake...hope it helps...Good Luck on whatever project you are working on

ALPHA

[ALPHA]

What are you painting exactly?

I see your point bill...some tanks don't have rubbers...like the KV and KT

ALPHA

[HERMAN BIX]

On my Jagdpanther I did the tyres last. Used tamiya rubber black to get the colour right, and gently brushed the paint on using a very long bristled brush turning a quarter at a time when the brush needed paint.
Covers all the overspray, and adds texture.
dust, mud etc then does the rest.
Good thing is that Panthers have raised inner rim edges where the tyres meet, so its not as hard as it looks to do.
Patience young Grasshopper...............only when you paint the tyres with one stroke without SWEARING YOUR HEAD OFF shall you truely be considerd a master

[Cruiser133]

Do you mean TIRES? Properly translated for my fellow Americans.

[billpe]

I'd say unless you have a steady hand, make a template. Paint the tyres first then place the template round the wheel and paint the hub.

To make a template, you'd want something like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jakar-Compass ... 1177728374?

[jarndice]

Oh Cruiser please, the first language of the United States of America is ENGLISH, and here in ENGLAND we quite cherish the way it is spelt, and if it was not for an American with a great dislike for Great Britain (a certain Mr Webster) you too would be spelling words as we do, Mr Webster declared that America should have its own Dictionary with its own unique spelling and so because someone who did not like us published a dictionary with poor spelling but printed to appeal to those Americans with a dislike of the old country you now find yourselves stuck with a system of spelling that no other country uses, look about, there are 260 million American citizens, there are 2 billion citizens of India and India in common with Australia, New Zealand(Hermans unique spelling does not count) and just about every other English speaking country spells as we do, If you wish to return to the original syntax I do not think anyone would object!!!! Ps please do not take any of this too seriously. shaun