Treds treds treds and more treds

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I have been looking at treds of some of the tanks on this site, i was wondering how you get them to look rusty and used

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I paint mine flat black, use a heavy rust wash, and then a dry brush of aluminum or silver to highlight the worn metal areas (guide teeth, drive sprocket engagement areas, and where the track meets the ground.
Gip Winecoff

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I’ll add only one thing to Gip’s technique, and that is that I will for the last step burnish any metal areas of the tracks with ground pencil lead.

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A silver pencil works real well for that part.
I get mine at a welding supply store.
I think they are only about 30 cents each.
Other than that mine is the same as above.

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Hi there
I know I didnt ask the question but I was meaning to ask it some time.
Thanks 4 the tips guys all I need now is another tank to do it on. My next tank will be a sherman
so while im here, what is the best 1 2 get. Shermanfreak, Styrene, James, anyone.
Thanx

Keep well.

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There are some good ones to work with.
Tamiya’s are as always a great kit to work with. The three that I would recommend from them are the M4, M4A3, and the M4A3 (105). All are well engineered and go together very well. All suffer from the same major problem and that is that they do not have the lower sponsons filled in, but this is a very easy fix and a template for this fix is available here: http://www.archertransfers.com/WEB%20pictures/ShermanFix.pdf
Dragon also has some excellent Shermans to work with. But they are a little harder to come by as their best ones are OOP at this time. The biggest drawback or plus depending on your abilities are the indy tracks. They can be a little overwhelming depending on your skill levels and experience.

Just one more thing … seeing as this was posted in a thread about tracks. Many of the Sherman tracks have rubber blocks on them so that would change how I paint and weather them just a little. The above thread describes more the procedure for all steel. The only difference is that I would paint the blocks flat black andn ot apply any rust or steel to them, but weather them with solely with pastels.

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Thanks guys.

I made a solution of half white glue half water put it on the treds and put in it dirt, it looked awful just like sandpaper… thanks for helping me and hopefully i will be able to fix the mistake

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Hi there
Thanks 4 the sherman tips hopefully 1 day I will get 1. I will probably get the Tamiya m4a3 because it comes with extra figures.
Thanx again

Keep well.