Whats the easiest way to make the mud look on tracks and suspensions

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Anyone know the easiest way to simulate the mud on tracks and suspensions etc? Globbed on semi-stiff putty or how?

TIA

Pat

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I use finely sifted dirt mixed with white glue. I’m just cheap and lazy.

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How about a bit of earth colored (mud colored ) semi gloss latex interior house paint if you don’t have it go to local paint store and go through the color chart , and have em mix it for ya , you should be able to buy just a quart , which is enough for permanent mud for your car too if you would like !, mixed with coffee grounds and dried herbs ( that you use for cooking ) add some plaster of paris , (just a bit to give it some consistency) and paint it on where needed . woorks great

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There are many ways, as you have already heard.

This is the method I used on my latest builds.

A mix of white glue, model R.R. ballast, Woodland Scenics turf, a glob of brown paint, and some hair clippings to represent grass caught in the mud.
Apply to the suspension and allow it to dry. Scrub some ground graphite onto it and then earth tone pastel chalks.

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see Shermanfreaks latest thread!!!

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hey sherman, wouldnt the hair decompose after a while??? jsut curious but other than that, it sounds like a great idea, maybe I’ll try it with that tall grass stuff i got from the model railroad section.

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I use squadron putty. Stinks like heck and is hard to work with but it gives good mud. Just paint it brown and what not when it’s dry.

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No problem with decomp when you use hair. It seems to last forever, unless of course it’s on top of my head…

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You know human hair must be inert to de-composition. Somewhere in the stuff I ‘inherited’, when my parents both finally passed on, is a lock of my sister’s hair that was cut when she was 7 or 8 years old. She’s now over 40 and that lock of hair is still around, if I could ever find it!

Glenn

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lol Robert
Thanks for the tips, I’ll have to try some one day

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isn’t hair dead cells, like fingernails?

and for the most realistic mud: mix water with dirt[:p]

i’m not sure who or how they did it but look at this: http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/dio/tiger2dio_hyeungtaekim.html [:0]

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Here’s another link to making mud!

www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/05/stuff_eng_tech_dirt.htm

I keep telling myself I’ll try this recipe. I have all the fixings. Just haven’t tried it yet!

HTH
Glenn