hi i have never made a tiger1 before and i would like to make it realistic so im wondering what color to paint the tracks. oh and i normally use model master enamel colors. thank you in advandce for your help.
I use tamiya or MM gun metal for a base , use dirt tone pastels to tone it down a bit , drybrush some silver over your contact points , ( unless you are doing a mud job )
Veer away from the over rusting that is so common nowadays , unless the vehicle has been abandonded that is .
I agree 100% with that. I use black as a base and drybrush steel onto the contact points.then I use washes and pastels, then one lighter round of drybrushing.
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The Germans apparently painted their tank tracks a very dark brown color. I don’t know how long that paint coat actually lasted on the tracks, though. I read this about two years ago, but can’t remember where.
I have a Panzer III/IV track link, and sure enough it has a kind of dark brownish hue to it, which looks like paint that has mostly worn off, but then again it might be rust.
do you have any recomendation for what brown i should use
I recommend that you either base coat with gunmetal or flat black, and then mist coat with a :weathering mix of brownish whatever…
Steve
Try Burnt Umber as the base coat. Then play around with rust colours. I like to use an acrylic flame orange dabbed on the burnt umber while still wet and then add a pale rust pastel chalk. Add dirt colours as needed. Or you can paint the tracks a light rust/dirt and use burnt umber as a wash and highlight with some gun metal/steel.
Glenn
or avoid the problem altogether by adding some dirt colour to PolyFilla powder until it is as viscous as mud and cover the tracks with it.
What kind of tracks are you using? If you are using metal tracks, like Friul or Karaya, starting with a nice marinade of “Blacken-It” to darken the metal before weathering would look great.
Also, if you use plastic tracks, using acrylic paints and washes might be less likely to adversely affect or dissolve the cement you use to glue the links together, or so I’ve heard…just a suggestion.
Model Masters are Testors makes a German track brown. I always paint mine gun metal then add alittle metallic gray on contact points and a little rust wash. I picked up someTamiya XF-9 hull red today at my LHS Which looks just like it. A rusty brown color im going to try it on my dragon initial tiger magic tracks which im building now.
thank you all
Any1 got pics of track made with that Blacken-It stuff? I was thinking german tracks were brown not black… am i wrong?
i would also like to see pictures of that blacken-it stuff on tiger tracks
i also whant to know if anyone knows for a fact that the tracks were brown not black.thank you
Well i dont know for a fact.But if you look at real color pics,they always have that brown rusty look. But that could just be from time.
It depends on what they were driving through… LOL
Well yeah that figures but if they had driven through mud you woudlnt cover 'em them all with mud right? 
Just like rust, all tracks are not as rusty as we think they are i’m pretty sure. Look at heavy construction machines, they ain’t all rusty cause they go through a day or 2 or rain… Why is there so few color pictures of WWII 
I use MM Track Brown colour… have always used it for German Panzers… then I take a soot pastel chalk and weather it… add some hint of dark rust pastel chalk and it seems to look good… IMHO