AFV Club vinyl T97E2 M60 / M48 track paint tutorial
2024 ж. 20 Мам.
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A Tutorial video on Painting the Single Piece AFV Club vinyl T97E2 M60 / M48 track. In this video I describe and show all the techniques I use to get the tracks painted, weathered, and fitted to the model.
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I am very much overall impressed with your modeling of the M-60A1 tank. I was on these tanks as a crewman throughout the 1970’s, as well as M-60 and the Sheridan for awhile. Reason primary to this note is that I want to disagree with respect, regarding the painting of center guides and end connectors. On the inside of the road wheels and compensating idler wheel was a piece, later multi-piece attachment called a “wear plate”. When the tank is driven any distance, with a few turns, the sides of the center guides were bare metal, and somewhat polished. They were made of steel, of course, so after sitting for awhile, yes they did develop a light coat of rust. But not much, and to my memory they turned a darkish gray. They, like the end connectors came from the factory with the same baked-on(?) OD Green as the tank. Speaking of the end connectors, in use, the main wear on the end connectors was to the forward arc of the connectors from wear against the drive sprocket which was also polished on the inside only, where end connector and sprocket met. Incidentally, the heater exhaust was invariably rusty, like the muffler/exhaust of panzers, and, every M-60/A1 I was around had a thin angle iron protector bolted to the fender support, and the same width as the fender, and sufficient girth to cover the diameter of the exhaust pipe. We often used this to scrape the mud off our boots prior to getting in the tank. Thought you might like to know! All the best! Jeff Clark
Yes I am aware of the wear plates and were part of the reason why they went with Aluminum alloy on the M60's wheel rims. I usually paint my guide horns as I do because from the majority of the 60's I have seen in person and also in some period pics they are rusty like the ones on my build. Granted these vehicles have not been driven in a while so the rust builds up. If I wanted to depict a tank that has been driven I would still paint them the same way but add another step with the paint being a swipe of silver paint on the sides of the teeth. I was thinking about doing this on my next generation of Patton based tanks. Also As I mentioned in the video if you want to depict a newer tank you would use a dark grey color in place of the rust color, then you can add the silver dry brushing over for the driven but not too old effect
Also here is a pic of the condition of the tracks I generally see on these vehicles, www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ftxup9yltpiv71.jpg
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