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In the recent past, there was a post about weathering wheels. I am now unable to find it - put it down to a senior moment. As a help, I can recall something being applied to the wheels, which were then spun round to get the effect. Please can someone post a link to the thread?

I Put a small bolt threw my wheels and put that in a cordless on a slow setting , you can then drip weathering on it you can also scatter pigments on you can get some good affects Rich, But your right I can't find the post either. Regards Andy

here on max's panther f 2nd page..

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20862&start=20

Thanks Jake, that's the one I was looking for.

I take it a step further and add a wash of streaking grim to the whole wheel and then wipe off the access. It winds up leaving the dark streaking grim color around all the detail bits. Then I add the streaks of the leaking oil from the center cap.

I just paint them up to 'as new' standard, put a spot of burnt umber/silver on each bolt head, wait for it to dry, and then put the tank on its side and wash them over with either a grey wash, and/or diluted acrylic, usually bare earth or something like that.

A few scratches are good, along edges etc, good old burnt umber with silver or black or grey.

If the road wheels are all plastic but should have rubber tyres, then either Vallejo or Tamiya rubber paint does the job.

Thanks for liking my wheels Silversufer . ATM I'm not sure how dirty I want the Panther to be , but you can 'go all in' to