white metal tracks, without using blacken-it, or anything similar, what's good to get rid of the "shine"? in a majority of pix, Chieftain tracks aren't coated in rust, unless they've been sitting for a while. at the same time, I don't really want them coated in mud either. thx

a light airbrushing with matt light grey, semi-covering ???
/ Robin

no airbrush. I did try tams weathering kit mud diluted. that did take some off, but too much metal looking on the inside. wondering if tams rubber black drybrushed where the tire line is might help

How about a flat brown paint in a spray can? Something along the lines of Rustoleum's "Camouflage" paint as a base coat, then drybrush with MM Enamel "Jet Exhaust".

G

As tedious as it sounds, maybe using very fine steel wool to burnish the links? Actually, it sounds horrendously tedious, however, that's fundamentally what they look like in real life. Check out a bulldozer at a construction site to see.

That said, even without an airbrush, if you put some Tamiya Flat Base (not the flat clear!) into Future you can get varying degrees of flat that are also easy to brush on.

Then use varying washes and powders to finish the job.

Paul

thx. that steelwool doesn't sound all that tedious, with tracks already linked, as it's basically the inside surface. now, got actually GET some. didn't really wanna go the paint route

It'll be tedious AF to get down into all the little crevasses. You can't hit just the high spots, you have to get into all the valleys and nooks.

And why not paint? You're going to weather anyway, no?

Paul