OK, I made a New Year’s Resolution to actually FINISH a model this year!
I’m working on the Panda 2S6M Tunguska and I’ve decided that I’m going to do an digital arctic paint scheme. Since I’ve got no reference pics of such a scheme I’m making it up as a go along!
I’ve been thinking about the tracks. I don’t see there being a lot of mud on a vehicle that is stomping around in the Great White North so what would be a good way to simulate the wear on the tracks? Just some rust pigment and some steel drybrushing??
I’m still putting the model together so if anyone has any decent artic paint schemes give me a shout! I’m looking at modifying one from a Russian arms show in 2013 from the paint guide for the Trumpy BMP-T “Terminator”.
Firs thing I would suggest is no rust. Tracks in use don’t have rust all over them. Some snow packed into the track links and on the road wheels would be a good idea. If there was any mud on the vehicle when it moved onto the snow terrain, much of that will remain, especially on the lower hull between the tracks and possibly on the road wheels.
i agree with BISH there would be no rust on an active vehicle. however, people expect that so i would go with a dark gray wash with a hint of raw umber over a steel painted track. it’s a graphic artist thing.
I’ve hollered about rusty tracks for years, decades, actually, to no avail… I have seen rust on tracks, but never even close to the extent that modlers’ have taken it to on operational vehicles… The rust I’ve seen had to looked for… It was always bright orange, and only on track-connectors, and even then, only in the pits in the steel… It would form only in humid environments, and was so minimal that, scaled down, is not visible…
You might want to go search youtube, there is a documentary on the building of Camp America in Greenland. The supplies for building that base was all hauled across the snow and ice by convoys of “snow cats/” There are a number of shots of tracks and running gear working on the snow.
