(Continued)Building 1/35 scale Metal Tank Tracks Tutorial part 2/2

[ebbergman]

Don't prime them. Use burnishing agent like gun bluing or like Uschi van der rosten. After it just use pigment or pastell and the burnishing looks more convincing than prime and paint I think.

[jetwagon]

what do you do about the little brass colored nubs sticking out of each link?

[StormRisingOriginal]

@jetwagon The tracks are painted after thus covering any brass nubs. The smashed nubs actually look much like the smashed hammered bolts heads on real-life tank tracks. The bolts on real tracks become heavily worn due to rubbing rocks and debris while driving.

[Treefrogs2]

back in the day, the tracks I did were rubber, that had tabs you had to melt toget the two halves of the track to stay together. they were also tight and never looked real.

we used to use a painted cat whisker (humanely cut off our loved tom) as an antanae

[StormRisingOriginal]

@Treefrogs2 Cool!, I've done my share of rubber tracks too. The cat whisker is hilarious .

[n0ret82]

@Treefrogs2 hmm..you could have heated and stretch a sprue to make an antenna..

[BHAMIG]

If you want MK (ModelKlasten) plastic tracks (Fruile style buy not as good) visis this site...............

hannants.co.uk

ATVB

Ben

[BHAMIG]

Lou's site is.................

He won't answer his phone but will reply to a voicemail or Email as he has a normal day job. He sorts his tracks out at the weekend.

His website is armour-models.co.uk.

ATVB

Ben

[BHAMIG]

The best place to get these in the UK is from 'Lou Stener' armour models. Google his site and drop him an Email. He keeps EVERY type of track plus aftermarket barrels, superfine chain and LOADS of other stuff. He won't answer his phone but will reply to a voicemail or Email as he has a normal day

ATVB

Ben

[desmosedicimeccanica]

ebay has tons of these tracks on sale

[GrandPimp20]

Metal treads give you cancer....

[StormRisingOriginal]

@GrandPimp20 Tons of house hold items cause cancer. In fact most have never been fully tested.

[BHAMIG]

No they do not - handling them all day long EVERY day will probably give you lead poisoning. I doubt you'll be handling raw lead every day! If you are I suggest some surgical gloves!

[BigAndTall666]

@BHAMIG it´s PEWTER!

[TheFiifthMan]

Where can I get some plastic tracks? My modeling skill isn't good enough to justify spending on metal tracks yet.

[StormRisingOriginal]

tankratsafvdepot(.)com Look in the "TreadsNTracks" section under "other tracks"

[robbie198076]

The company is from Hungary.

[StormRisingOriginal]

The tracks are produced in a few countries.

[brokencasket]

The company is from the Czech Republic...

You can buy cutters that cut the ends of the wire flat without crushing them, just looks better.

They look good though.

[StormRisingOriginal]

I choose to crush the wire, in order to stab it into the other side. Plus, in real-life, the bolts placed could have had smashed looking heads.

[StormRisingOriginal]

I got mine here tankratsafvdepot(.)com

[StormRisingOriginal]

Make sure to watch the first part of this tutorial.