Tips please: How do you sratchbuilt a tyre and a wheel

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Take for example the Lav-25 tyres. How would you made them if you wanted to make tyres and the thread pattern without having the possibility to adapt a part from a kit donor. And how would you made a logo like “continental” or “good year” in that tyre.

Please tell me how do you do it. [:)]

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There are a couple of ways you could do it that I know of but I only have experience with one of them… The way I am going about it for my Hummer is I put two of the kits wheels together… One one I completely removed the tire protion of the paltic part and on the other I made sure that I only took out the rim (wheel)… I made molds with RTV rubber of both peices… The wheel part I am going to cast in resin… ANd when it gets here…Micro-Mark has some casting stuff that makes actual rubber tires… I am going to try that and see how it works out… If it looks half as good as I want it to the I am going to be a tire making fool[:D]

Hope this helped a little…

Tom

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Hi there nuno. Just like what Tom said, the only way you can do this is to mold it in resin or in Micro-Marks tire casting stuff. In making resin moldsyou should have a good pattern to make the mold out of, complete with the brand names & logo. And of course you’ll need the resin & RTV mold stuff. With regards to LAV-25 tires & wheels, if you can’t do the resin casting stuff, there are AM stuff out in the market. Check out www.mapleleafmodels.com.

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Ex18B, alex amarra
: I thank you for this input but what I would like to know is really how to make a wheel from zero.

Imagine that it was for an OTO Melara or something that odd and nothing similar to use as donor was availliable

How is possible to sculpt a tyre pattern in a circular rim made from: let’s say: stock plastic, aluminum, etc…

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Use a lathe and turn the shape of the wheel (Less the treads) Ahdd the treads using some styrene. It’s time consuming But worth it

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You’ve got me there nuno[%-)][%-)][%-)] I haven’t ever tried making one from scratch… [sigh][sigh][sigh] Good luck I am sure that some one will have the answer to your question…

Tom